But a raving autumn shears Blossom from the summer's wreath; The older is condemned to death, Pardoned, drags out lonely years Conspiring among the ignorant.

可是一个肃杀的秋天啊,从夏日的花环上剪下鲜花；,年长者被判处死刑，遇赦后，挨过寂寞的一年年,在愚氓中间从事阴谋。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Now on one level of this passage, Milton's describing this modern condition as the product of the Fall.

这段中从某个程度来说，弥尔顿描述了现代的情况是秋天的产物。

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Given we are living in Princeton, especially this time of a year, when in the fall.

比如我们住在普林斯顿，尤其是在每年的秋天，就像现在。

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What ended up happening is, you know the news, Rupert Murdoch bought The Wall Street Journal last fall and he announced that Wall Street Journal-- WSJ.com--will no longer be free.

最后的结果是,你们知道那条新闻的吧,鲁珀特·默多克去年秋天收购了《华尔街日报》,他宣布《华尔街日报》,WSJ.com,将不再免费

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I think now we can see why these lines about the autumnal leavesare so difficult for us to incorporate into a moral reading or a theological reading of the poem.

我们现在可以看到为什么,这些关于秋天的落叶的句子如此难以,与对这首诗的道德或者神学的理解相结合。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Adam at the Fall didn't simply come into a knowledge primarily of evil.

亚当在那个秋天并不是首先遇到恶的。

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And on specific holidays that deal with the themes of nature in the fall.

在秋天有一些特定的节日,都是有关自然的主题。

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This is the doom which Adam fell into, ; this is the fallen condition to which we've all been consigned; but the passage is so much more complicated than that because good and evil seem to have been mixed up in the apple before the Fall.

这就是亚当掉进的命运，这就是我们都被丢弃到的掉落的环境;,但这段比善恶在秋天前就被混在苹果里了,更复杂。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is the initial part of the simile that describes the leaves: "thick as Autumnal Leaves that strow the Brooks / in Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades / high overarch't imbow'r."

这是描写落叶的比喻的开始部分：,“他们人数众多，稠密得像秋天的繁叶,/在瓦隆布罗萨，厄特鲁利亚的光辉逐渐暗淡“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is where Milton gets the "autumnal."

这就是弥尔顿得到“秋天般的“灵感的来源“

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We'll be doing this in one week, and the disjunction between the two works, this disjunction at least with respect to their treatment of the Fall, should dramatize the nature, or just the enormity, of a lot of the conceptual problems and conflicts that Milton is tackling here.

我们在一周内都会来做这个工作，将这两部著作分离开来，这种分离至少要尊重他们对秋天不同的理解，应该将自然戏剧化，还是只是极恶,弥尔顿在这里应对的很多观念上的问题和冲突。

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