To speak of shepherds and shepherding in a pastoral poem seems almost invariably to be a strategy or a way to speak of poets and their craft of poetry.

在田园诗里描绘牧羊人,看起来是一种固定不变的策略或者方式,用以描述诗人和他们的造诣。

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It turns out in the world of classical music there's a stereotype of women being simply less proficient than men: they play smaller than men, they don't have the same force and they have smaller techniques, they're more temperamental and so on.

在古典音乐界,有一个刻板印象,女人的造诣就是不如男人：,她们演奏得不如男人宏大，她们力量不如男人，她们技巧不如男人，她们喜怒无常等等。

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