It's just this double bind of vocation that's the subject of Sonnet VII, "How soon hath Time." That's the sonnet in which Milton laments the fact that he has turned twenty-three years old and has yet produced nothing that would indicate a shining poetic future.

第七篇十四行诗的主题就是这种职业窘境，“时间过得多快啊，“弥尔顿在这首诗里表达了,对自己都快23岁却没创作出什么,可以显示出他卓越天赋的诗的哀伤。

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As in Sonnet Seven, Milton writes the first verse paragraph of this great poem, Lycidas -- the first fourteen lines - in essentially the form of a sonnet.

如同《十四行诗第七首》，弥尔顿写《利西达斯》,这首伟大的诗的开头--头14行时,-用的还是十四行诗的形式。

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We hear in the 1637 Lycidas those same cries of unripeness and under-preparation that we had heard in the 1631 sonnet, "How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth."

我们在1637年的里听到过,与1631年的十四行诗相同的不成熟和未完成的呼喊，“时光如此飞快，如同偷走青春的窃贼“

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Now shortly after Milton composed the sonnet "How soon hath Time," he wrote a letter to a friend in which he enclosed this poem, the sonnet.

在他创作“时间过得真快“后不久“,他给朋友写了封信，把这首十四行诗也附了进去。

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It's not a perfect sonnet in quite the same way that Sonnet Seven was.

它并不像《十四行诗第七首》那样是严格意义上的十四行诗。

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It's in recognition of what we can think of as this time- honored historical irony that Milton writes such a memorable line, a wonderful line, in his sonnet on the new Presbyterian regime.

这刚好跟我们这次所想的相应-,这个令人尊敬的历史性讽刺，弥尔顿写得如此有纪念意义，如此绝妙，在十四行诗里，他所写的新长老派的政体。

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He's making exactly the same disclaimer that he had made in Sonnet Seven.

他发表了和他的十四行诗第七首中同样的免责声明。

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