As you can imagine, it had long been out of fashion in Milton's own day.

可以想象，就算是在弥尔顿时期这种诗也早就过时了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

pastor The word pastoral comes from the Latin pastor, which literally means "shepherd," and Milton knew perfectly well how artificial his use of the pastoral mode of poetry would seem as well as how out of fashion, how completely outdated, it would seem.

这个词来源于拉丁语中的，字面上表示“牧羊人“,弥尔顿非常清楚他对这种田园诗的运用,看起来有多么的不自然，过时，多么的落伍。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They don't necessarily represent in a systematic fashion Plato's worked out axiomatic views about the nature of philosophy.

它们不一定是很系统的,不是说柏拉图已经,提出了一套系统的哲学自然理论

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And we will get you out of here in an orderly fashion.

我将带你们离开这儿,到一个有序的时尚学科去。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选