Prince William plays a shepherd in a nativity play in 1986.

1986年威廉王子在圣诞剧中扮演牧羊人。

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Where a Nativity won't do, and a robin on a pudding would be crass, angels fill the yawning space with beauty and taste.

在一个没有新生事物，知更鸟都停在布丁上的粗鲁而令人乏味世界，天使们的出现让它充满了美丽的味道。

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ON A manicured lawn within the grounds of the Arkansas state capitol in Little Rock a Nativity scene is erected each Advent.

每当圣诞来临之际，在阿肯色州小石城、州议会大厦周围修剪整齐的草地上，都会立起耶诞的布景。

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as we've seen, establishing a fiction that works to place himself at the scene of a nativity that obviously occurs 1600 years and change before his own birth.

我们也看到了，他创建了一个虚构的景象,把自己放进了基督诞生的幻景中,而这些比他出生早1600年发生并不断在改变。

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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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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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Brown recalls a nativity play in which the boy playing Herod was off sick.

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Where a Nativity won't do, and a robin on a pudding would be crass, angels fill the yawning space with beauty and taste.

ECONOMIST: Angels

Local raw materials--say, olive wood from the West Bank for a Nativity scene or wool from alpacas raised in the Andes foothills for a knit hat--are favored.

FORBES: Creative Giving