We have a strained image of the composition of the poem at its very outset and we have an image of someone writing as if he were participating in a race.

如果一开始我们就对诗歌的创作有一种不友善的印象,那么我们就会对诗人有一种印象,就好像他正在参加一场竞赛。

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But over here, there's a bit of a competition to see who can eat the strongest curry, I think quite often, so.

但是在这边，有一种竞赛是比谁能吃最辣的咖喱，我想这经常发生。

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It's the outcome of a race one's running faster than all of the other guys and it's as if to have a career at all one has no choice but to come in first.

这里讲的是一项竞赛的结果,某个人比其他所有人跑的都快,就好像这场竞赛中,除了第一你别无选择。

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They will compete with each other in the nude because that is the way Greeks exercised.

他们将,裸身竞赛,因那是古希腊人运动的方式。

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If I had a competition where I'd give $100,000 to the person who looks the most as if they are in pain, it is a very good tactic to take a pen and jam it into your groin because you will look extremely persuasively as if you are in pain.

如果我在这里举行一个竞赛,谁最能将痛苦表演的和真的一样,谁就能拿到10万美元，那么最好用的一招莫过于拿根笔,狠狠地戳进你的腹股沟,因为此时的你看上去真的,足以使他人相信你非常痛苦。

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You may remember that I had suggested in the lecture on the Nativity Ode that Milton may have thought of his career as if it were something like a race.

你们可能记得我在的演说中,曾经设想的，弥尔顿或许把他的职业,看作无休止的竞赛与追逐。

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They will compete naked in co-educational gymnasia, think of that.

他们将裸身,在共同的体育课中竞赛，想一下。

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And here he says that men and women, being submitted to the same regime, will mean, among other things, that they will compete with one another in co-educational gymnasia.

当然在此，他表示男女若真放到相同的管理方式中，那将在很多方面会出现问题，例如，他们将在,共同的体育课中竞赛。

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I think here that the particular image of a career as a race still holds but with a little bit of a difference.

我认为这里把职业比作竞赛的独特设想,仍然成立，但是又略微的有所不同。

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