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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So their national ties to the land in the north, in the south, the center is Jerusalem and its surroundings, Bethlehem is of no immediate interest to Islam.

所以他们与这片土地的联系,无论是北部，还是南部，都是国家层面的，中央的是耶路撒冷和周边，比如伯利恒，与伊斯兰教没有直接联系。

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Milton wants his ode to make it to Bethlehem before the Three Wise Men do.

弥尔顿想把他的颂歌在术士们到达之前,带到伯利恒。

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He is also saying that the birth of Christ in Bethlehem was a nightmare for the world it altered, the world that it changed utterly a change that Yeats sees as the end now of the Christian Era and not its fulfillment.

他还说,基督在伯利恒的诞生,是一个噩梦，因为世界因此改变，彻底变了,叶芝把这个改变,看作基督时代的终结,而不是它的圆满。

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we don't know -- Milton tells someone to hurry up think of this -- to hurry up with the inspiration of the ode, because Milton can see the Three Wise Men bearing their gifts as they dutifully follow the Star of Bethlehem to the manger.

我们不知道-弥尔顿告诉某个人赶紧,用颂歌中的灵感想一下，因为弥尔顿能看到术士们正在贡献馨香,当他们忠实得追随伯利恒明星来到马槽的时候。

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