The second section runs from stanzas nine through seventeen, and it characterizes the song that the heavenly choir sings at the moment of the Nativity.

第二部分从第九行到第十七行，这一部分展示了基督降生时天国的唱诗班,唱了一首什么样的歌。

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First, in the first eight stanzas you have Milton describing the scene of the Nativity and the effect that the birth of this new infant has on the natural world.

第一部分，前八行,弥尔顿描述了基督降生的景象,还有这个新生婴儿对现实世界的影响。

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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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For next time, make sure that you will have read at the very least Milton's great poem, and he wrote it when he was only twenty-one years old, "The Ode on Christ's Nativity."

下一讲，同学们至少要读完,弥尔顿的一首伟大诗作，他写这首诗时才21岁，《基督降生颂歌》

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