I have to read these lines again: "And when they list, their lean and flashy songs grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw."

我需要再读一遍这些句子：,“当他们列举出他们贫瘠而浮华的歌颂时“,亦显示出卑鄙无能的低劣之声“

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This last line that I've read seems itself to have been grated on a scrannel pipe.

我读到的最后一行,听起来似乎它本身被细弱的气管声所激怒了。

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At least that's what the OED tells us; the only example that they can find of the word scrannel is in Milton's Lycidas.

至少这是牛津英语字典告诉我们的;,他们找到的唯一一个例证,就是在里的这个。

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It seems to be the case that Milton's made this word up, this wonderful word scrannel.

似乎弥尔顿是生搬硬套的这个词，这个绝妙的词，细小的。

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We have no idea what this menacing contraption actually is supposed to look like or what it's actually intended to signify, but we can know, I think, with some certainty that it's not scrannel.

我们无从得知这个威胁性的装置,实际上是什么样或者要代表什么，但是我们可以通过一些并不细小的确切性得知。

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