It's fitting that the first poem of Milton's that we study in this class is "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity."

这节课我们首先学弥尔顿的,《圣诞清晨歌》是很合适的“

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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。

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It could be purely instrumental but it's called "Buy a song," But we don't want to use that sort of parlance.

可能买的是纯器乐,却被称为"买首歌",但我们不想用那种说法

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And then we'll see exactly what it is that he's doing here so we're going to try to lock in on the bass.

现在我们来听一下这首歌究竟是什么样的，然后我们来尝试专攻它的低音部分。

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He was long in choosing the subject of his heroic song and, as we know from all of -- and we've encountered a number of them - all of those protestations of delay Milton began his epic late.

他久久未能确定他要写的英雄之歌的主题，这我们从从弥尔顿多次声言,自己的史诗动笔很晚就能看出。

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We'll talk about verse and chorus when we get to the issue of form.

我们会谈到主歌和副歌,等我们遇到那种曲式的类型再说

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