In that respect, it has a kind of priority over the hells or the underworlds of Homer and Virgil.

在这一点上，它优胜于荷马与维吉尔笔下描绘的,那些地狱或阴间。

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Like Homer and like Virgil, Milton intends to soar above the wheeling poles of the visible world and describe the otherwise invisible comings and goings of the gods.

像荷马和维吉尔那样，弥尔顿想屹立于现实世界之上,去描绘无形世界中上帝的来来往往。

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So this is Virgil: "When I was fain to sing of kings and battles, the Cynthian god" -that's Phoebus Apollo -- "plucked my ear and warned me."

这就是维吉尔所写的：“我欣然乐意着笔于国王与战争“,“而辛西亚那之神“,即为阿波罗-“在我耳边低声警告我“

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It's to admit that this is in fact a late epic and that it derives from a close, studious, student-like imitation of the great epics of Homer and Virgil.

也就等于承认它事实上是一部晚期的史诗作品,是源自于雷同的，学究气的，小学生般的,对荷马与维吉尔写的伟大史诗的模仿。

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The poem is based most closely on Virgil's Tenth Eclogue.

这首诗取材于维吉尔的《牧歌》第十首。

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