To get a better sense of the modern name game, we stopped some families out on the National Mall here in Washington,D.C.

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But Milton portrays himself as a laborer here, a poet who by labor and intense study actually has to work to produce the great poem. Milton's divine vocation, his calling, seems in this light to be something like a vocation in the modern sense: it's a job that exacts work or labor.

但弥尔顿把他自己描绘成一个工人,一个只能通过努力学习来创作出,伟大诗歌的诗人，弥尔顿的神圣的使命，他的天职，就此而论就像现代意义上的职业了：,一份要求工作和劳动的职业。

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I said that Yeats looks on the modern with a sense of both horror and a fascination, a compulsion almost.

我说过叶芝看待现代是,以一种害怕和好奇的感觉，一种难以压抑的冲动。

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Indeed, arguably a modern military power, at least in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century sense, and he injects European culture into Russia.

至少在十七世纪和十八世纪早期,它可以算是一个现代化的军事大国,同时 他将欧洲文化注入俄国

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And the reason I was was that I was interested in how the modern world came into being and it came into being I think in the late 16th century in some sense.

这是因为我对,现代世界的形成很感兴趣，而我认为,从某种意义上它是在十七世纪末期形成的。

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So I went back to the great creator raising his plastic arm and suggested that, well, maybe after all there might be some good way of complicating the meaning of Akenside by suggesting that the modern, anachronistic meaning of "plastic" would be relevant to the sense of the poem.

所以我回想了一下,当这位伟大的创造家抬起他的塑料手臂，说，也许总有办法,能让Akenside的意思更复杂,有一个很好的例子就是,“plastic“一词古今意思的差别“,和诗歌的意境有关。

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He goes in a sense in an anti-modern direction, maybe even in some sense in a reactionary direction, at least in relation to other poets' ideas of progress and innovation.

他某种意义上走入了反现代化的方向，甚至某种意义上走入了反动的方向，但至少和其他诗人关于,进步和创新的想法有关系。

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These are, in a sense, complementary images of the modern in America.

某种意义上来说，这是互补的对于现代美国的印象。

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Yeats's sense of modern history, of the crisis of his moment this is something we can describe and explore next time in "Easter 1916."

叶芝对现代历史，和他所生活时代的危机的感触,我们可从下节课要读的诗,1916年的复活节,还描述和探究“

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There's an extraordinary sense of verbal chaos, a kind of word hoard that modern poetry and modernism -generally, a kind of linguistic environment of great complexity from which modern poetry and modernism emerge.

这里关于口头言论的混乱有一种独特的理解，关于现代诗歌和现代性的隐藏理解,总之，是一种关于语言环境的庞大复杂性的理解,现代诗歌和现代性即是由此产生发展。

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