And in his role here as a mute, as an infant, Christ is serving, I think, an important function for Milton.

作为一个哑巴，一个婴儿，基督对，弥尔顿起了很重要的作用。

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Did I conceive all this people, did I bear them, that You should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries an infant,' to the land that You have promised on oath to their fathers?

这些人是我十月怀胎生下的吗？,您告诉我吧，如养育之父抱着吃奶的孩子’,直抱到您起誓应许他们祖宗的地方去？

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He is very much an infant in 1629.

他在1629年的时候不过就是个婴儿。

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Milton clearly wants us to know that this Nativity Ode was written by a young Londoner in 1629, but it's a poem that is at the same time deliverable to the infant Christ by some extraordinary violation, of course, of all of the established laws of temporal sequence.

显然弥尔顿想让我们了解这首《圣诞清晨歌》,是在1629由一位伦敦年轻人写的，但是它同时也是一首,通过非同寻常的方法能够交到圣婴手里的诗，当然这就需要他违反现有的一系列法律。

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