It was a wonderful place from which to see the city, a wonderful place from which to feel that everything was organized at its feet.

它为人们提供了鸟瞰纽约的绝佳地点，让人们感觉到,一切都为其组织，位于其脚下。

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See how from far upon the Eastern road The Star-led wizards haste with odors sweet: O run, prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at His blessed feet.

看一下明星引导的术士们是怎么,从东方遥远的路途上带着馨香匆忙赶路的：,快些，快把你们卑微的歌辞献上，谦虚地在他圣洁的脚下安放。

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He looks down, and he sees the little city laid out below him.

他俯瞰下去，看到这个小小的城市，在他的脚下。

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suddenly all of Paris is organized at your feet.

突然之间，整个巴黎就在你脚下了。

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But it's almost as if Milton were tempted now to make himself go even further back, to write a humble ode that he could place at the feet of the Creator, the Creator at the moment of the actual creation of the entire universe.

但弥尔顿那时好像,要把自己放回比那还要早的年代，来写一篇谦逊的颂歌安放在造物主的脚下，那时的造物主实际就是创造天地万物的神。

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We're being asked to accept the fiction that Milton is having this very poem laid at the blessed feet of the infant Christ.

它想让我们接受这一幻景,幻景中弥尔顿正把这首诗,谦虚的在上帝圣洁的脚下安放。

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with thy humble ode," he's also saying that the wise men should be prevented from making it to the manger at all, that somehow the wise men need to be headed off at the pass and precluded from presenting any gifts to the Infant God that may compete with the so-called humble ode of John Milton.

要尽先把你们卑微的歌辞献上“,他同时也在说应该阻止那些术士们,不让他们到达马槽那里，不管用什么方式，都要在途中阻拦住那些术士们,不让他们把与弥尔顿所谓的谦逊的颂歌,相竞争的礼物,放在圣婴的脚下。

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