Bronner's is famous for its nativity scenes which show the birth of Jesus Christ.

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The nativity of Christ, as you can imagine, was a popular subject for early seventeenth-century poets for pious early seventeenth-century poets.

基督诞生，你可以想象，对17世纪的诗人来说是很受欢迎的主题,特别是那些虔诚的17世纪的诗人。

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He is also saying that the birth of Christ in Bethlehem was a nightmare for the world it altered, the world that it changed utterly a change that Yeats sees as the end now of the Christian Era and not its fulfillment.

他还说,基督在伯利恒的诞生,是一个噩梦，因为世界因此改变，彻底变了,叶芝把这个改变,看作基督时代的终结,而不是它的圆满。

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We in religious studies tend to like these terms, AD rather than BC, Before Christ, and AD, because AD actually stands for Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.

在宗教研究中我们喜欢用这两个术语，而不用BC，即“基督前“和，因为AD其实是Anno，Domini的缩写，即“主的年份“

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The poem on the morning of Christ's nativity serves as Milton's preparation for something greater than itself.

圣诞清晨歌》这首诗,在弥尔顿准备阶段起到一个比诗本身要大的作用。

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What Milton is primarily interested in in his Nativity Ode is the redemption, the promise of what Christ's Nativity will do at some future point for mankind.

弥尔顿在基督诞生颂歌里最感兴趣的是,救赎，基督诞生后在将来,在将来能为人类做些什么。

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