He's starting to champ at the bit. He's ready to write an epic poem on much more important subjects than shepherds and shepherdesses.

他已经迫不及待地想要写一首史诗,写一些比田园牧羊生活更为重要的题材。

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But I'm very excited because I'm going to work on a film in August about World War One, which is very exciting.

但是我非常激动，因为我八月就要为一部以一战为题材的电影工作了，这真的很令人兴奋。

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Rembrandt did have one time where he started painting kind of Catholic themes, but basically he's like these other guys.

伦勃朗也曾画一些天主教题材的作品,但基本上他和当时的其他画家一样

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In the works that Milton is going to be publishing now with greater and greater frequency, it's this Spenserian ideal of marriage that will be the new and, believe me, the endlessly complex Miltonic subject.

在弥尔顿准备出版的作品中,越来越常出现的，是斯宾塞式的婚姻理想，那将是崭新的，相信我，也是无尽而复杂的弥尔顿风格的题材。

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Literary theory, as I say, is skeptical about the foundations of its subject matter and also, in many cases, about the foundations of what it itself is doing.

就像我说的，文学理论，是对创作题材的怀疑,在很多情况下，也是对自身所做之事的基础的怀疑。

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Even if you like the novel, who else is really put off by this? Yes.

即使你喜欢这部小说，还有什么被这个题材影响的吗，是的。

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What are these problems that constitute ? the subject matter of the study of politics?

是哪些问题,组成政治研究的题材？

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Who else is really put off by this subject matter?

还有其他被这个题材影响的吗？

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He wants to write about kings and wars.

他想要写国王和战争的题材。

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