作为外交官，他有幸较早地体验到了西方的现代性，同时又以此来反观中国，并以这一独特视角，以诗歌的形式描绘了中国近代社会的形象。

As a diplomat he had the opportunity to experience modernity in the Western world, which offered him a perspective to reflect on China and to create a unique figure of China in a realistic way.

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虽然，现代诗以各种形式力求指导现实，奥登却小心翼翼地提醒我们，诗歌什么事也干不了（在你们的讲义中有提到）。

While modern poetry in many of its forms strives to master reality, Auden reminds us, there on your handout, cautiously, that poetry makes nothing happen.

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他的作品一般以诗歌形式出现。

His works usually take the form of poetry.

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But in any case, that's why Solon's pamphlets are written in poetry  and apparently in really good poetry.

无论如何,这就是为何梭仑的小册子,要以诗歌的形式写出,而且显然是很好的诗歌

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The things that they taught us in school, when they required us to remember poetry, no matter how we try, we can't forget it, and the stuff that we had to remember that was in prose, no matter how we try we can't remember it.

我们在学校所学的知识,当以诗歌的形式进行记忆时,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难忘记,但是如果让我们背诵散文,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难记住

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