See how from far upon the Eastern road The Star-led wizards haste with odors sweet: O run, prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at His blessed feet.

看一下明星引导的术士们是怎么,从东方遥远的路途上带着馨香匆忙赶路的：,快些，快把你们卑微的歌辞献上，谦虚地在他圣洁的脚下安放。

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The portrait of humans that emerges is that Humans are unimportant menials. They are the slaves of the gods, The gods have little reciprocal interest in or concern for them, And they create human beings to do the work of running the world.

接着便出现了对于人类的描绘,人类是卑微的仆人，他们是上帝的奴隶，上帝与他们没有共同利益，也并不关心他们，他们创造了人类是为了让他们接下治世的苦活。

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with thy humble ode," he's also saying that the wise men should be prevented from making it to the manger at all, that somehow the wise men need to be headed off at the pass and precluded from presenting any gifts to the Infant God that may compete with the so-called humble ode of John Milton.

要尽先把你们卑微的歌辞献上“,他同时也在说应该阻止那些术士们,不让他们到达马槽那里，不管用什么方式，都要在途中阻拦住那些术士们,不让他们把与弥尔顿所谓的谦逊的颂歌,相竞争的礼物,放在圣婴的脚下。

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If he is beneath the polis it means he's beneath what it is to a human being, and that tells you just how potent is this concept of a community for the Greeks and it emerges in its own way from the Iliad and the Odyssey.

反过来,如果一个卑微到无法进入城邦的人,那也就意味着他作为人的意义同样卑微,由此可见,集体的概念,是多么的深入希腊人的心中,在《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中,便揭示了这一点

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