He said Catholics do no injustice to anyone by presenting Christ as an opportunity of finding what he called "their truest and most authentic selves, the joy of finding life."

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The painting is The Birth of Christ by Botticelli in the end of the 15th century.

这幅油画--《维纳斯的诞生》,是画家波特切利在15世纪作的。

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Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Homer described the fate of the companions of Odysseus who were transformed by a witch into pigs.

在公元前几百年,荷马这样描述奥德赛的几个同伴的命运,一个女巫将他们变成了猪

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Milton clearly wants us to know that this Nativity Ode was written by a young Londoner in 1629, but it's a poem that is at the same time deliverable to the infant Christ by some extraordinary violation, of course, of all of the established laws of temporal sequence.

显然弥尔顿想让我们了解这首《圣诞清晨歌》,是在1629由一位伦敦年轻人写的，但是它同时也是一首,通过非同寻常的方法能够交到圣婴手里的诗，当然这就需要他违反现有的一系列法律。

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