The character of Peter brought directly out of the New Testament is really slicing through the poem's fictive veneer.

彼得的形象是直接从中借鉴而来的,在这首诗虚构的伪饰中显得格外犀利。

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Alpheus is also the god of erotic pastoral poetry, it turns out, and this god is literally gone underground during the terrifying appearance of Saint Peter.

阿尔甫斯也是描写爱欲的诗歌之神，从诗句上来看，这位神灵在圣彼得面前,悄无声息的隐匿了踪影。

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But John Milton is also recompensed and, by the weird sacrificial logic that Saint Peter has already sketched out for us, you can see a really disturbing way in which Milton has benefited as well.

但是在圣彼得铺陈开来的诡异的牺牲逻辑下,弥尔顿也得到了回报，你会看到弥尔顿从中得益的方式,确实非常让人困惑。

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Eight years after its initial composition, Milton looks back at this elegy, rereads it, and picks out the Saint Peter passage on the corrupted clergy as that specific feature of the poem worth singling out and introducing.

在第一版出版的8年后，弥尔顿重新审视了这首挽歌，把圣彼得关于腐朽教会的篇章,单独挑出来并作了介绍。

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