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The nativity of Christ, as you can imagine, was a popular subject for early seventeenth-century poets for pious early seventeenth-century poets.
基督诞生，你可以想象，对17世纪的诗人来说是很受欢迎的主题,特别是那些虔诚的17世纪的诗人。
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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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So, Christ is that one to whom the little children can come, and I think she cultivates that childlike sense in her self-presentation.
基督是个连小孩都能沟通的人，我认为奥康纳在她的,自我呈现中也营造了那种童稚感。
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Notice here how Yeats images what is at the core of Christ's birth.
注意这让叶芝是怎么描写,基督诞生的核心内容的。
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with the classical conceptions of moderation, of justice, of self-control over the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity.
与古早的节制，正义概念不相关,也与基督信仰美德的自制无关,更别提希望与博爱。
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And many people have noted that it's the spirituals, the slave spirituals, that express perhaps the most authentic forms of Christian faith that this country has produced.
很多人都注意到，圣歌，黑人圣歌，或许是美国历史上表达基督信仰的,最真诚的形式。
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So this was a list of books that some author believed were scripture and should be read by Christians and churches.
所以有些作者认为这一系列书是圣典,基督教徒和教会都应该奉读。
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Marcion,though,seemed to have spurred other Christian leaders to decide what they thought Christian scripture should do.
马吉安似乎促使了其他基督教领袖,确定基督圣典的作用。
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The second section runs from stanzas nine through seventeen, and it characterizes the song that the heavenly choir sings at the moment of the Nativity.
第二部分从第九行到第十七行，这一部分展示了基督降生时天国的唱诗班,唱了一首什么样的歌。
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Milton wants to arrive in Bethlehem to hand Christ his poem before the wise men are able to bring their gold and their frankincense and their myrrh.
他想到达伯利恒把他的诗歌亲手交给基督,在术士们拿走他们的黄金,乳香精油和没药树之前。
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That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.
有些读者认为,对基督的信仰是关乎生死的大事,这对于那些对基督教,不以为然的人是一个障碍。
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And Machiavelli wrote, of course, the dominant form of political organization was the empire or, to speak more precisely, the Christian empire.
当然马奇亚维利所写的，优势政治组织模式,是帝国，或更确切地说，是基督帝国。
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There is a genre of literature that details the lives of saints, Hagiography, but that came later and is largely something we find in the Christian era.
有种文学体裁就是专门细节记录圣人生活的,圣徒传记，不过这出现的比较晚,而且大多是在基督公元之后。
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Long before Milton had begun to tackle the problem, Christians had for centuries, for millennia, puzzled over the logical inconsistency between these two concepts.
早在弥尔顿应对这个问题之前，基督教徒们就已经花了成百上千年，为这两个概念之间逻辑上的前后矛盾感到困惑。
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With this first poem treating the subject of the nativity of Christ, Milton is able implicitly to announce something like his own nativity as a poet.
因为它的主题是基督诞生，弥尔顿能够含蓄的宣告一些东西,比如他作为一个诗人从此诞生了。
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It was the ideal embraced by priests and nuns, and it was the ideal to which all Christians theoretically at least were in a position to aspire to.
这是牧师和修女们所拥护的理想，这也是基督教徒们理论上,至少是理应渴望的理想。
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So the language that different early Christians used about each other, and for themselves,was sometimes very common Greek language, but sometimes it would've also sounded strange and kind of in-house to other people.
所以早期基督教徒所使用的不同的,互称或自称的称谓，有些其实是普通的希腊语，但有时听起来很奇怪,对其他人来说像黑话。
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Milton has just been entertaining the glorious moment of the apocalypse at the end of time because he's always looking further and further and further ahead.
弥尔顿刚要享受,基督启示最后这一辉煌的时刻,因为他总是不断努力朝前看。
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What Milton is primarily interested in in his Nativity Ode is the redemption, the promise of what Christ's Nativity will do at some future point for mankind.
弥尔顿在基督诞生颂歌里最感兴趣的是,救赎，基督诞生后在将来,在将来能为人类做些什么。
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We sort out the similar confusion of gender roles, which is truly remarkable, as we balance the masculine Christ with the feminine Truth with which the masculine Christ is identified here.
我们挑出了性别角色的困惑，这确实很值得注意，我们用女性真理来平衡男性基督,所以基督的男性在这里被认同。
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There is in there, too, the disturbing suggestion that Christ himself was a rough beast.
其中也有，恼人的暗示,基督本身是一只野兽。
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