You may remember that I had suggested in the lecture on the Nativity Ode that Milton may have thought of his career as if it were something like a race.

你们可能记得我在的演说中,曾经设想的，弥尔顿或许把他的职业,看作无休止的竞赛与追逐。

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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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I don't know if I'd eat it if it were put in front of me, but anyways, I'm told that it looks something like this, that you have the custard with little fragments of plum inside.

我不知道,就算这东西曾经放在我面前，就算我吃过它，但是无论如何，但是有人告诉过我有些东西长得像这样，如同在一些小块的梅子,放在乳蛋糕里面。

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If it were all the things that it's not, or if it were identical to all the things that somehow or another it's not, then I would be in a very difficult situation because I wouldn't have any means of knowing it in particular.

如果一件事就是它自身的反面，或者和其他的事物没有区分之处,那么我们，就很难认识它,因为我们没有办法认识它。

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