So the reasons for this really enormous shift in plans, and the enormous shift in subject matter, are worth exploring.

弥尔顿的计划变化为何如此之大，他对主题的选择为何有这么大的改变，是值得探究的。

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The poem on the morning of Christ's nativity serves as Milton's preparation for something greater than itself.

圣诞清晨歌》这首诗,在弥尔顿准备阶段起到一个比诗本身要大的作用。

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It's reasonable, I think, to invoke Dr. Johnson here, Samuel Johnson, who writes in his Life of Milton that Milton's unskillful allegory appears to be one of the greatest faults of the poem.

我认为在这引用塞缪尔·约翰逊的话是很合理的，他一生都在写关于弥尔顿的文章,他指出弥尔顿不熟练的寓言成为了这部诗的大败笔之一。

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Milton is taking a pretty great risk here.

弥尔顿在此冒了一个大险。

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But, as I mentioned briefly in the last class, the notorious difficulties attending this poem seem to have very little to do with Milton's grief over the death of Edward King, which may well not have been all that troubled or complicated.

不过，正如我上节课简要提到的,这首诗的阅读障碍和弥尔顿对爱德华金之死的,悲啜之情并无太大关系，他的哀悼也不是使这首诗艰深复杂的全部原因。

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