He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

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Now these are going to be sort of dreary, boring, typical Martin lectures; dreary and boring historical surveys.

会比较沉闷，无聊，典型的Martin课程;,沉闷无聊的历史回顾。

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that he is not going to pick up his phone, that just the day looks very dreary and rainy even when it's sunny outside.

他都不想接电话，即便外面艳阳高照，每一天对他来说都是沉闷的阴雨天。

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being entertaining shouldn't be dreary and if anything is clearly full of purposes of entertaining It's done well enough. It becomes an art.

但是娱乐不一定就要粗俗,一个东西，只要明显带有,娱乐的目的,而且很受欢迎的话，那它就成了艺术。

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Now we began this poem with the sense of the dreary repetitiveness in that opening phrase, "Yet once more," but here very close to the poem's end we have a vision of an end to all those fruitless exercises of repetition.

现在我们带着首句，“然而再一次的“里,沉闷的重复感开始读这首诗“,但是在诗的最后我们有一种,所有徒劳的重复行为都结束了的感觉。

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