The Nativity Ode is continually presenting the speaker with temptations, with incitements to sin that need to be purged from the speaker's poetic voice.

圣诞清晨歌》继续呈现给诗歌发言者一些诱惑，对罪孽的激励需要,诗歌语言发言者来净化。

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But there's an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that he had written.

但我有种非常强烈的感觉,弥尔顿好像还是想让人觉得,《圣诞清晨歌》才是他的第一首诗。

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So Milton implies to Diodati that he isn't yet up to the task of epic, but as he describes the Nativity Ode that he's just written, it's almost as if he considers it something of a mini-epic.

所以弥尔顿暗示迪奥达蒂自己还不能完成创作史诗的任务，但他提到了他刚写完的《圣诞清晨歌》,好像这就是一篇迷你史诗。

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There's also an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem and obviously this is a much more difficult feat wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that anyone had written.

我还有一种强烈的感觉,弥尔顿想让人觉得,显然这很困难,想使《圣诞清晨歌》看上去像,任何一个人写的第一首诗。

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Milton naturally wrote his friend letters in impeccable Latin verse, and this one he seems to have composed almost immediately after having written, having completed,the Nativity Ode.

弥尔顿用毫无瑕疵的拉丁文很自然的给朋友写信，而且这首诗,是在弥尔顿一写完《圣诞清晨歌》,就拿去排版的。

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And this is exquisitely visible to us in the Nativity Ode.

这在《圣诞清晨歌》里可以很清楚的看出来。

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