He shot himself to death in nineteen sixty-one, just as his father had years earlier.

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Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

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The poet of a pastoral elegy usually represents himself as a shepherd, a shepherd mourning the death of a fellow shepherd, and he often explains that the death of his shepherd friend is exerting a magical effect on the entire natural world.

田园挽歌诗人通常把自己写成一个牧羊人，哀悼自己的同伴的逝去，这个牧羊人常常描绘自己同伴的死,使整个自然界为之动容。

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Shortly after, Berezovsky barely escaped death himself.

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But he never sought death himself.

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Brick is slowly drinking himself to death out of a convenient grief: his best friend, Skipper, killed himself, and he blames Margaret, who seduced Skipper to try to get him away from Brick and save their marriage.

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