We were down south, in Alabama C Bill Driscoll and myself when this kidnapping idea struck us.

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He turned this way and that, and, seeing no one about; he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

他左右观看，见没有人;,就把埃及人打死了，藏在沙土里。

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What good is it -- you'll remember -- what good is it, Milton asks, ; "to tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade"; that's, of course, the vocation of poetry if that shepherd-poet is just going to be struck down in his prime as Edward King had been?

大家可以看到，弥尔顿在这里发出了疑问，“进行平凡微不足道的诗歌创作“，又有何益;,当然，就田园诗人而言，诗歌的天命,是否在于如同爱德华金一般的英年早逝？

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