Apollo warns Virgil that a pastoral poet simply shouldn't overstep his bounds.

阿波罗警告维吉尔，作为一个田园诗人,不要妄想着逾越他的界限。

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It engages the ancient art of pastoral poetry initiated and made famous by the great Greek poet Theocritus, which was later imitated by Moscus and then finally by the Roman poet Virgil in his celebrated pastoral eclogues.

它沿用了古老的田园诗艺术,田园文学是由希腊伟大诗人忒奥克里托斯创始并发扬开来的，后来为摩斯科斯所模仿，最终,罗马诗人维吉尔的著名田园诗也是模仿的此诗体。

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It's at this point in the pastoral elegy - the conventional, stereotypical pastoral elegy - that the poet-shepherd sings a mournful song.

在田园挽歌中,-传统的，老套路的田园挽歌中,-牧羊人诗人就在此时唱起哀悼的歌。

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Milton was the only Cambridge poet to honor Edward King in that memorial anthology by writing a poem in the pastoral mode.

弥尔顿是那本纪念诗选里唯一一个,写田园诗追悼爱德华金的剑桥诗人。

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It's as if Milton is saying, "Look at me. I may be a poet. I may actually -I'm simply writing a pastoral poem, but I'm actually doing something in the world.

正如弥尔顿所说的，“看着我，我或许是一名诗人“,或许只是写着一首诗，但我的确在做着一些事。

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It's almost as if the entire point of a pastoral is that it is set in a world that neither the urbane poet nor the urbane reader has actually any real experience with.

似乎田园诗的全部意义就在于它的背景设在田园,而不管是都市诗人还是都市读者,都没有任何实际的田园经历。

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Virgil would go on to be a great epic poet but not until after he had written these pastoral eclogues and then after that, after he had written the georgic poems, only then does he write finally the great epic poem The Aeneid.

他会成为一个伟大的史诗家,但这一直到他写出这些抒情诗之后,在那之后，在他完成了那些田园诗篇之后，直到那时他才最终完成了史诗。

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The poet of a pastoral elegy usually represents himself as a shepherd, a shepherd mourning the death of a fellow shepherd, and he often explains that the death of his shepherd friend is exerting a magical effect on the entire natural world.

田园挽歌诗人通常把自己写成一个牧羊人，哀悼自己的同伴的逝去，这个牧羊人常常描绘自己同伴的死,使整个自然界为之动容。

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