“该唱什么样的挽歌？” 他问，“为被军用推土机连根拔起的树木？

“What requiem can be sung”, he asked, “for trees uprooted by army bulldozers?

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这些故事并不代表愤怒、指责，甚至思想，更糟的是：它们是婉转的挽歌。

The stories are not angry, accusatory, or even ideological. It's worse: they are condescendingly elegiac.

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与之前的好莱坞经典西部片一样，《大地惊雷》反复吟唱着一首轻快的挽歌。

Like classic Hollywood Westerns before it, "True Grit" in all its iterations has an elegiac lilt.

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Now I spoke last time about the familiar sense of hesitation, that apology with which Milton had opened the elegy.

我要最后一次说明一下弥尔顿写在挽歌开头的，那句道歉，那种熟悉的犹疑感。

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You have an elegy here, a beautiful and plangent lament for something or someone lost. And we have to ask ourselves, "Could this be a paradise lost?"

它变成了挽歌，一首优美的如泣如诉的挽歌,因为某些东西或某些人消失了，我们不得不问自己，这就是失乐园吗“

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As with the passage on the falling of the leaves there's a kind of elegiac tone that works to undo, or at least to challenge, our theological certainty.

在描写落叶的段落里,有一种挽歌式的腔调，似乎要抹掉，至少是挑战神学上的确定性。

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