You remember Sonnet Seven, "How Soon Hath Time," the sonnet that he had written on the sad occasion of his twenty-third birthday.

你们记得《十四行诗第七首》么，“时光飞逝,弥尔顿写给自己23岁生日那个悲伤的日子的十四行诗。

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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 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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