问题的答案，在于这首挽歌的中心意义。

The answer to the question, I think, gets at the very heart of the meaning of this elegy.

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在田园牧歌的表象之下，是京派为失落的古老文明唱一曲挽歌的文化冲动。

Under the surface of pastoral song, there is a lament of cultural impulse sung for the lost ancient culture.

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诗歌最后一部分采用挽歌的口吻意在，告诉我们打败异教后的成功，预示着基督即将诞生。

The elegiac tone of this final section of the poem should give us some clues to the type of victory over paganism that Christ's birth is actually heralding here.

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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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