When in 1645 Milton finally publishes that first volume of poetry, the first poem that he places in this volume is the Nativity Ode, our poem today.
当1645年出版了首个诗集,他把《圣诞清晨歌》放在最前面,就是我们今天看到的这首诗。
And when he says that, his workers pull off the tarp and sparks fly from the chandelier.
当他说这些话的时候,助手就把油布掀开了,然后就看到吊灯那里有火星飞出来。
And when he goes picking in the cotton fields, he imagines that he could be a slave.
当他去采棉花的时候,他把自己想象成一个奴隶。
The mockery you might say mockery of Socrates remains one of the sincerest forms of flattery; they took him very seriously.
这些嘲弄,可以这么说,对苏格拉底的嘲弄,仍是最真诚的奉承型式之一;,他们很把他当一回事。
And concomitantly a second reason is that that Civil Rights revolution also brought, through its process, a huge discovery at the same time of Northern racism, when Martin Luther King brought the movement to Chicago and nearly got killed doing it.
还有第二个理由就是,民权运动的经过也带来了一个大发现,那就是北方的种族主义,当马丁路德金把运动带到了芝加哥,他差点因此丧命
The common good became a real concept and one that, unfortunately, some of his successors didn't some of his successors didn't take terribly seriously.
他使追求公共利益真正成为深入人心的理念,不幸的是,他的接下来的继任者并不把这当回事儿
Could it be that after I sold it to the junk dealer he crashed it.
有可能是,当我把车卖给废品商后,他把车子毁了。
Also, I don't think that there is any remorse, like in Dudley's diary, "We're eating our breakfast," it seems as though he's just sort of like, you know, the whole idea of not valuing someone else's life.
而且,我不认为达德利有丝毫悔意,既然他可以写出“我们正在吃早餐“这样的日记“,说明他似乎根本,没有把别人的生命当回事儿。
And his answer was, "Well, when my father sent me here, he told me a number of things that I'm supposed to do, but the most important of these was the Greek words, aien aristeioi, always be the Best.
他的回答是,"当我父亲把我送到这里时,他对我说了,我该做到的几件事,而其中最重要的就是,用古希腊语说"aien aristeioi",事事为先
Remember the letter ? that Plato wrote near the end of his life, when he compares the democracy to a golden age, at least in comparison to what went after.
记得柏拉图,在临死前所写的书信吗,当他把民主与黄金时期相比时,至少是与那之后的时期相比时。
I'm going to treat this chapter as a sort of microcosm of the book, with respect to its craft. Let's look at how this opens: "The next afternoon when he got his car back, he drove it out into the country to see how well it worked on the open road.
我认为这一章是整本书的缩影,关于这个的写法,让我们一起看一下她是如何开头的:,第二天下午,当他拿回自己的车时,他把它开出去,开到农村里,想看看开着它在平坦的公路上时,它的性能如何。
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