Now the subject matter that he's chosen for this poem, for this so-called first poem, couldn't possibly be more appropriate.

现在他选这首诗的主题很重要，这所谓第一首诗可能不太恰当。

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So what I'd like to do now is focus on a piece that emphasizes--foregrounds-- just the first axis, pitch.

那么现在我要做的是集中精力于一首乐曲,它所强调的,突出的,只是这第一维,音高

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Milton's subject in his first English poem is -- we can guess it it's his future literary career.

弥尔顿在他的第一首英语诗歌里的主题，我们可以猜一下,是他将来的文学事业。

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Now The Wasteland was the first poem to have footnotes, and you have to ask yourself: what do you have to think the poem is in order to think that it needs footnotes?

荒原》是第一首有脚注的诗歌，所以你们需要问问自己：,这首诗究竟有什么特别,而使得它必须要有脚注呢？

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And you'll see on your handout two quotations from poems by Hughes, the first, "125th Street," giving us well, here, images of black life in the rural south transposed to Harlem.

在讲稿上你们会看到对休斯诗篇的两个注解，第一首《125街》，很好的给我们展示了，从南部的黑人生活到哈莱姆的一个过渡。

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In a number of ways, it's both a first poem and it's a poem about firsts.

在许多方面，它既是第一首诗，也是关于第一的一首诗。

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But there's an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that he had written.

但我有种非常强烈的感觉,弥尔顿好像还是想让人觉得,《圣诞清晨歌》才是他的第一首诗。

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From Milton's first major poem, the Nativity Ode.

他第一首重要诗作《降生颂歌》中看出来。

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The first I couldn't pick out any melody at all.

第一首完全听不出任何旋律

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There's also an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem and obviously this is a much more difficult feat wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that anyone had written.

我还有一种强烈的感觉,弥尔顿想让人觉得,显然这很困难,想使《圣诞清晨歌》看上去像,任何一个人写的第一首诗。

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It isn't exactly, though, the first poem that Milton wrote.

尽管说这是弥尔顿写的第一首诗不太确切。

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Okay. Here's piece one: Right hand or left hand.

这是第一首,左手还是右手

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The first was Beethoven's.

第一首是贝多芬的

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Now in the first original poem that Milton wrote in English, titled "At a Vacation Exercise," Milton and you will come to recognize this as so unbelievably Miltonic Milton doesn't write about love or about death or about any of the subjects that typically engage the youngest practitioners of poetry.

现在，在弥尔顿的英语诗歌中，第一首原创诗的名字叫做假日练习,弥尔顿和你们都将认为这是难以置信的弥尔顿风格的诗,他没有写爱或死亡,或者任何,常常吸引年轻诗歌创作者的主题。

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Yes, that's probably true as a general observation, whether it comes through clearly on these two-- this comparison-- I'm not quite so sure, but there--I wouldn't say there's a great deal of detail in the first one.

是,可能从一般角度观察是对的,不管是否是通过,这两者的对比得出的结论,我也不太确定,但我不会说,第一首里有大量的细节处理

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If you're not taking notes in this lecture, you have to write down at least one sentence. You must write this down because this will be the most important thing I say all morning: Milton's Paradise Lost is the first narrative poem in English that didn't rhyme.

就算你们这堂课不记笔记，也一定要记下至少一句话，一定要把这记下来,这是我一早上说的最重要的一句话了：,弥尔顿的《失乐园》是,第一首不押韵的英语叙事诗。

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