They were stories of a god who violently slays the forces of chaos, represented as watery dragons, as a prelude to creation.

他们是上帝凶狠屠杀混乱势力的故事，以充满水的巨龙为代表，是创世的序幕。

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Now it's not until the fourth stanza of the prelude that we can fully understand the magnitude of the strange anxieties here.

直到序曲的第四段,我们才能完全明白这种奇怪焦虑的严重性。

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As soon as Milton describes for us the events in heaven that lead up to the Nativity, he begins the this is the prelude of the poem, it's broken up in to two chunks: the prelude and then what Milton calls the hymn he begins the third stanza of the prelude to his poem with a plea to the Heavenly Muse for inspiration.

弥尔顿一给我们描述引导基督诞生的天堂的事情,他就开始描述,这就是诗歌的开端，分为两部分：,这个开端还有弥尔顿称之为颂歌的部分,他开篇的第三段用了,对天国的缪斯寻求创作灵感的请愿。

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