It's fitting that the first poem of Milton's that we study in this class is "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity."
这节课我们首先学弥尔顿的,《圣诞清晨歌》是很合适的“
Our first Christmas here, we were really upset that we weren't able to go home and see family during Christmas time.
我们在这儿过的第一个圣诞节真的很失望,在圣诞节期间我们回不了家,也见不到家人。
The Nativity Ode is continually presenting the speaker with temptations, with incitements to sin that need to be purged from the speaker's poetic voice.
圣诞清晨歌》继续呈现给诗歌发言者一些诱惑,对罪孽的激励需要,诗歌语言发言者来净化。
No time to waste. And we race off--perhaps risking an accident, who knows?
但是没有时间思考,圣诞老人要赶着发礼物?
He said I had it, so he headed off to a villa in the mountains, Christmastime 1925.
他说我得出结果了,所以他隐居到,山上的住宅,在1925年得圣诞前后。
He's the one who probably would be the first to tell you there is no Santa Claus.
他会是第一个想跟你说,世上不存在圣诞老公公的人。
I normally go home for Christmas and visit my family.
圣诞节时我一般都会回家看家人。
I guess it's-- Joy to the world, the Lord has come, don't we sing it as a Christmas carol, or some can sing it as a Christmas carol?
我想是这样弹,普世欢腾,救主临降,我们不是将它做圣诞颂歌来唱的吗,或者有些人将它当做圣诞赞歌来唱
And they have like a giant Christmas tree and a menorah and a bunch of other things, so.
到时候会有巨大的圣诞树、蜡烛,等等之类的都有。
It seems like a very Christmassy place. It's definitely a place that you would go to, you know, spoil a kid.
它看起来很像个充满圣诞气氛的地方。这个地方你绝对愿意去,好宠宠一个小孩。
So we spent the Christmas holidays exploring the city and seeing the decorations that they have put up.
所以,在圣诞节假期,我们探索了这座城市,欣赏了他们挂上去的装饰品。
And we scheduled it and we get it and my dad and my sister would help trim it.
先做安排然后实践,爸爸和姐姐会帮忙修剪圣诞树。
Think back to a movie's that's on TBS, ad nauseam, in December called Christmas Story.
回想一下12月在TBS电视台上的一个电影,令人作呕的,叫做《圣诞节故事》
And I met Bill Clinton. He goes there every year in December for Christmas and buys Swarovski.
我也见过比尔•克林顿。他每年12月都会去那儿做圣诞采购,还会买施华洛世奇水晶。
That's the prophecy that we read around Christmas time.
那就是我们在圣诞节时读的预言。
and then Boxing Day is a second day of rest after that. So yeah, on Christmas Day,
那么节礼日就是圣诞节后,第二天的休息日。所以,在圣诞节那天,
And then you know, I just had to watch "The Nightmare Before Christmas" by myself in my apartment and called it a day, so.
然后我只得一个人在公寓看《圣诞夜惊魂》。一天就过去了。
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。
this is perhaps the most interesting thing because it forces us to show the complexity, to see the complexity, of semiotic relationships: a red light, just to return to the Christian holiday, a red light on a Christmas tree.
现在我们讲到了一个耐人寻味论点,这个问题迫使我们要思考,符号系统之间复杂的联系:,当我们再圣诞节时看到红灯,圣诞树上的红灯。
And under this title, "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," appears as you can see from your text -- appears the subtitle, "composed 1629."
你们可以看到在《圣诞清晨歌》,的标题下有个副标题“作于1629“
They're all bright, they're all cheerful, they all say "Merry Christmas," etc., etc., etc.
它们都是明亮,欢乐的代名词,都表示圣诞快乐。
They all end just before Christmas.
但都在圣诞节前放假。
We reconnected over Christmas.
我们是在圣诞节的时候联系上的。
When in 1645 Milton finally publishes that first volume of poetry, the first poem that he places in this volume is the Nativity Ode, our poem today.
当1645年出版了首个诗集,他把《圣诞清晨歌》放在最前面,就是我们今天看到的这首诗。
That is what he did over his Christmas vacation, wave mechanics.
这就是他在他圣诞节假期所做的,波动力学。
Those are two Christmas carols that are very conjunct in nature.
这两段是圣诞颂歌,本质都是级进
Once you get that, once you get the value, "Christmas tree," as opposed to "red lights," "red lights" being perhaps a part of some Christmas trees, then you see that you're back in a semiotic system and a very obvious one, because a Christmas tree is a not-menorah, not-Kwanzaa candles.
一旦认识到这点,红灯,指的其实是圣诞树“,红灯是圣诞树的一部分,那么你会发现你回到了符号学的解释中,圣诞树不用于犹太教或者非洲人的节日。
and going to get the Christmas tree was always really a big deal in my house.
装饰圣诞树一直是我们家的一件非常重要的事情。
because they have one of the biggest Christmas trees there, and it's just beautiful and
因为那儿有一棵最大的圣诞树,它很漂亮,
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