Then there came to be questions about whether the scenes, the stories in the book, actually did happen to him.

于是问题出现了，书里的那些情节和故事是否真正在他身上发生过。

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So if this were to happen to him he wouldn't be Shelly Kagan the person who'd been lecturing last week.

所以如果这件事发生在他身上,他不会成为谢利·凯根,上星期给你们上课的人。

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With the scene of the flight of the pagan gods at the nativity of Christ Milton is also depicting a scenario that, I think, on some level he's hoping will occur within himself.

在《圣诞清晨歌》中有一个无宗教信仰的人逃跑的画面,我认为弥尔顿同时也在描绘一个剧情，某种程度上他希望这样的事情也会发生在自己身上。

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He was not blind, he was not deaf, he was not retarded, but something else happened to him.

他并没有失明,没有失聪,也没有变成弱智,但在他身上却发生了一些其它变化

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