Milton, who is writing at the present moment of December of 1629, is claiming the capacity to arrive at a moment in history that he has already described as a long-completed one.

这首诗作于1629年12月，这时弥尔顿正在慢慢具备他达到历史性时刻的能力,而这时他也已经被这样称赞着。

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This is the term structure just a short while ago-- of December 2006--very different.

这是不久前,06年12月的期限结构图,形状很不一样

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Now Milton was born in 1608 and he wrote the Nativity Ode along with the Sixth Elegy, the Elegia Sexta, that we read for today in December of 1629, a couple of weeks presumably after he turned twenty-one.

弥尔顿出生于1608年,并于1629年12月写下《圣诞清晨歌》,《第六挽歌》和《Elegia，Sexta》,大概是他刚过21岁后两周。

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