He began and ended his career as a decadent, I suppose a reader of Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde.

他以颓废者的形象开始和结束其事业，我想作为佩特和王尔德的读者。

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After he'd published all of his major poems, he began publishing a spate of works that attempted to re-create British culture from the ground up.

在发表了他的所有主要诗作后，他开始大量发表其他著作,试图以这些作品完全重建英国文化。

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He could have begun Lycidas with this, with something like a description of the uncouth swain: "Oh, let me tell you about this uncouth swain."

他可以以类似于对粗鄙的年轻人的描写,来开始叙述：,“让我告诉你，那个粗鄙的年轻人吧“

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Milton had begun the sentence not with calm, prophetic certainty about his divine vocation. He began it with a far more secular set of images, a set of images that comes from the world of business.

弥尔顿并不是以一种先知对他天职，的冷静确信开始写的，他以,更世俗的比喻开始,生意上的比喻。

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