When we look carefully at this poem, in fact, the distinction that Frost seems to make between fact and dream starts to give way.

事实上当我们仔细看这首诗时，弗罗斯特特别地区分了,事实和梦开始不再这么重要。

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Now not only does Phoebus Apollo make a sudden appearance, but he seems actually to interrupt the speaker of the poem in order to correct him.

不仅是他的登场让人措手不及，他似乎也打断了诗歌创作者的叙述,以此来对他进行纠正。

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It's a very funny poem, and you've got triplet rhymes there to make sure you know that Frost is joking, and it feels like light verse.

这是首有趣的诗，你会得到三连音的押韵,让你确实觉得弗罗斯特在开玩笑，这就像光的韵律一样。

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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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Thou does make us Marble with too much conceiving," Milton had told Shakespeare in that poem.

你把我们变成了一个有太多设想的石头“,弥尔顿在这首诗中这样告诉莎士比亚。

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There's also an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem and obviously this is a much more difficult feat wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that anyone had written.

我还有一种强烈的感觉,弥尔顿想让人觉得,显然这很困难,想使《圣诞清晨歌》看上去像,任何一个人写的第一首诗。

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He says in the middle of the poem on page 225: First there's the children's house of make-believe, Some shattered dishes underneath a pine, The playthings in the playhouse of the children.

他在225页这首诗的中间说到：,首先是假扮的孩子们的房间，松树下的一碟碟食物，那些玩具室里孩子们的玩具。

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The Lady, the Lady in Milton's mask, was stuck to her seat in the presence of the Shakespearian magician Comus, and Milton himself had claimed in the poem "On Shakespeare" that Shakespeare "dost make us Marble with too much conceiving."

这位戴着弥尔顿面具的女士，被卡在了莎士比亚塑造的酒宴之神,所处的位置上，弥尔顿在诗歌“论莎士比亚“中声称“,莎士比亚用太多设想出的东西是我们麻痹“

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For next time, make sure that you will have read at the very least Milton's great poem, and he wrote it when he was only twenty-one years old, "The Ode on Christ's Nativity."

下一讲，同学们至少要读完,弥尔顿的一首伟大诗作，他写这首诗时才21岁，《基督降生颂歌》

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And I can only assume that that is precisely the point, that Milton would -- later in 1667 when Paradise Lost is published, he would make his poem canonical just like The Iliad and just like The Odyssey and The Aeneid before anyone had actually read it.

我只能假设就是为了这点，当他在1667年出版《失乐园》后，弥尔顿会遵照《伊利亚特》的模式来创作诗歌,还有《奥德赛》和《埃涅阿斯纪》,在这之前人们还没有真正的读过这些书。

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