He's starting to champ at the bit. He's ready to write an epic poem on much more important subjects than shepherds and shepherdesses.

他已经迫不及待地想要写一首史诗,写一些比田园牧羊生活更为重要的题材。

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Student: I guess it's because of the fact that he's doing something that's really not good, and it almost seems like he's trivializing it.

我想因为他想要做一些,不是很好的事情，他好像要使之平凡化。

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But before he can actually be made present at the actual event of the Nativity, he has to endure something painful and obviously momentous: "from out his secret Altar toucht with hallow'd fire."

但是要想真正能在,基督降生时出现，他不得不忍受一些痛苦，而且是巨大的痛苦：,“从神秘的祭坛外碰到圣火“

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And because he knew that the past rigors had generated some hatred for Ramiro, to purge the spirits of that people and to gain them entirely to himself, he wishes to show that if any cruelty had been committed, Cesare this had not come from him, from Cesare, but from the harsh nature of his minister.

因为他清楚过去的严苛行为,已为，Ramiro，招来一些怨怼，因为他想要肃清那些人的意志,以期完全掌控他们，他希望,有任何的残忍的行为，那也不是他的主意而是，而是来自其官员的残暴本性。

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