We begin his story at a dinner party in London, England in 1932.

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All of the poets we read, even that New England hayseed, Robert Frost, begin their careers in metropolitan centers, primarily in London and New York.

我们阅读过的所有诗人，包括新英格兰的乡巴佬弗罗斯特，在大都会的中心开始了他们的职业生涯，首要的是伦敦和纽约。

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so they serve, it's very like you walk in and you feel like you're in England or you feel like you're in London,

他们，就像你进去就觉得自己在英国，或者自己在伦敦，

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London is quite, quite different from the rest of England.

伦敦跟英格兰的其他地区非常不一样。

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And when we go to the title page of A Boy's Will we see that this New England poet publishes his first book, in fact, in London in 1913, there on New Oxford Street.

当我们看到“少年的意志“这个题目时,我们知道他在新英格兰发表这第一本书时，实际上是1913年在新牛津街。

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In the time we're starting this course in the seventeenth century, besides London, which is this gigantic place, the biggest cities in England were Norwich and Exeter, and York in the north.

我们这节课的起始年代,即十七世纪,除了伦敦这个巨型的城市,英国最大的城市是诺里奇和埃克塞特,以及北部的约克

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Where in England have you been other than London?

除了伦敦，你还去过英格兰的哪些地方？

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Borough Market, right. It's one of the oldest markets, I think, in England, in London.

博罗市集，好的。它是最古老的市集之一，我想，在伦敦，在英格兰都是。

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So London is not like the rest of England.

所以伦敦不像英格兰的其他地方。

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London, already by the late sixteenth century, one-sixth of all the people, I think this is E.A. Wrigley who pointed this out a long time ago--one-sixth of all the people in England went to London frequently, because London was absolutely gigantic as a city.

伦敦,早在十六世纪后期,六分之一的人口,我想是E.A莱格力很久以前给出的这个数据,他指出,当时有六分之一的英国人,会经常去伦敦,因为伦敦当时是个巨型城市

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How is London different from other cities in England?

伦敦和英格兰其他城市的区别是怎样的？

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