Because we don't really consider Western Literature to have an actual closed canon of authoritative texts.

因为我们并不认为西方文学,具有权威文本的固定标准。

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to be familiar with the major works and thinkers and literature, music, and art of, uh, Western history.

了解西方历史上主要著作、思想家、文学、音乐和艺术。

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When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

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And it's in these years after his graduation from college that Milton embarks upon what is essentially a systematic study of all available knowledge. He commands a mastery of just about the entire canon of Western literary and historical learning.

就是在他毕业后的这些年里,弥尔顿开始着手系统的学习,方方面面的知识，他想要精通,整个西方文学和历史经典。

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