In the local church at Christmas there's a model of the nativity scene with a tiny baby in a crib shepherds animals and Kings bearing gifts.
在圣诞节，地方教堂里有一幅基督诞生雕像，上面有一个躺在小床里的婴儿，还有牧羊人、动物和送礼的君王。
With this first poem treating the subject of the nativity of Christ, Milton is able implicitly to announce something like his own nativity as a poet.
因为它的主题是基督诞生，弥尔顿能够含蓄的宣告一些东西，比如他作为一个诗人从此诞生了。
But we'll be focusing on what we call "The Nativity Ode."
但我们会重点讲解，《降生颂歌》。
Christmas mass was celebrated at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, with carols sung in Arabic.
人们在伯利恒的圣诞教堂举行圣诞弥撒，唱诗班用阿拉伯语唱着圣诞颂歌。
And for some, he still points to the Nativity of the babe in the manger, and reminds us of the reason we celebrate Christmas.
对某些人来说，他仍然象征着马槽里圣婴的诞生，并让我们想起庆祝圣诞节的缘由。
They had kept alive an old memory - that a kindly old cleric brought little gifts to the poor in the weeks leading up to the Feast of the Nativity.
他们保留着古老的记忆——一位和蔼的老牧师将小礼物送给穷人以让其准备基督诞生的盛会。
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.
米尔顿很自然的用他娴熟的拉丁语写信给他的好友，这封信好像是他在写完基督颂歌之后立即书写的。
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。
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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