pastor The word pastoral comes from the Latin pastor, which literally means "shepherd," and Milton knew perfectly well how artificial his use of the pastoral mode of poetry would seem as well as how out of fashion, how completely outdated, it would seem.

这个词来源于拉丁语中的，字面上表示“牧羊人“,弥尔顿非常清楚他对这种田园诗的运用,看起来有多么的不自然，过时，多么的落伍。

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