作为人类文学遗产的优秀读者，他十分推崇西方文学经典，对经典的品质理解独到；

As an excellent reader of human literary heritage, he rather esteemed Western literary classics which he's fully comprehended;

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而在剧本方面，他喜欢改编西方经典文学著作，包括陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》（1951），高尔基的《在底层》（1957）以及《李尔王》（即1985年的《乱》）。

He drew his stories from the classics of Western literature , including Dostoyevski's The Idiot (1951), Gorky's The Lower Depths (1957), and King Lear (Ran in 1985).

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当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

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When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

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And it's in these years after his graduation from college that Milton embarks upon what is essentially a systematic study of all available knowledge. He commands a mastery of just about the entire canon of Western literary and historical learning.

就是在他毕业后的这些年里,弥尔顿开始着手系统的学习,方方面面的知识，他想要精通,整个西方文学和历史经典。

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