"Omeros", his 1990 novel-length masterpiece, for example, was represented by an extract no more than a tenth of the original.

例如，他1990年的史诗杰作《奥梅罗斯》被节选成只有原作的十分之一。

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As in “Omeros”, where local fishermen assumed the identities of heroes from Homer, Mr Walcott raises up the local—the sights and the sounds of his native St Lucia—until they become the stuff of epic.

与在《奥梅罗斯》中的当地渔民被赋予了《荷马史诗》中的英雄身份一样，在《白鹭》中，沃尔科特先生刻画了当地人的形象——圣露西亚岛民的眼光和心声——最终他们成为了史诗人物。

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