One of the motives for his selection of this genre, the pastoral genre, is the tradition -and it's a tradition that goes all the way back to Theocritus and Virgil -that associates shepherds with poets.

他选择这个流派的动力之一，就是田园诗是一种传统,是一种可以追溯到忒俄克里托斯和维吉尔时代的传统,它把牧羊人和诗人紧密相连。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Presumably related to their own feelings, but it's not a biographical thing.

这大概是因为它和自己的感情紧密相连吧，但它并不是现实的东西。

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Right, we see in this passage something that reveals so much about what the Greek values were and you'll see how closely they were tied up with the polis and the primacy of the polis in their lives.

对的,我们在这篇文章中,看到了很多揭示希腊人价值观的东西,你们能看到他们和城邦以及城邦在他们,生命中至高无上的地位之间有多么紧密相连

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In Greece you have a lot of war and you have a lot of freedom, and all of that is tied up, I think very much, with the development of this very special thing called the polis.

在希腊,存在着无数战争,但同时也存在着无限自由,我认为,战争和自由之所以,紧密相连,密不可分,是因为城邦这一特殊事物的维系

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选