He couldn't wait to write an epic poem about something more important than pastoral shepherd life.

他已经迫不及待地想要写一首史诗，写一些比田园牧羊生活更为重要的题材。

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So if you want to write an epic poem, this isn't the best place.

因此，如果你想写一部史诗的诗，这不是最好的地方。

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He's starting to champ at the bit. He's ready to write an epic poem on much more important subjects than shepherds and shepherdesses.

他已经迫不及待地想要写一首史诗，写一些比田园牧羊生活更为重要的题材。

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He's starting to champ at the bit. He's ready to write an epic poem on much more important subjects than shepherds and shepherdesses.

他已经迫不及待地想要写一首史诗,写一些比田园牧羊生活更为重要的题材。

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In portraying the deity, I would think, if I were to write an epic poem - I would feel that I would be expected to stay within the fairly narrow parameters of religious decorum.

要表现神性，我认为，要是我要写一首史诗的话,-我肯定会觉得不能越出,宗教教义狭窄的界限。

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It's a good sort of question that gets raised in such a problematic allusion: how do you set out to write an original poem within such a conventional genre like the epic?

对于这样一项有问题的引用,提出这些问题是很好的：,你怎么能开始写一篇标榜原创的诗作,却使用史诗这一传统的文体呢？

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Documents deciphered using it include an epic poem from the 7th century BC by Archilochos and parts of a lost tragedy by Sophocles that dates to the 5th century BC.

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