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He was a famous Trojan leader and the hero of Virgil's Aeneid.
He fled the burning
[解說]
1. “He was a famous Trojan leader and the hero of Virgil's Aeneid”：他是個有名的特洛伊領導人，也是味吉爾《羅馬建國記》(The Aeneid) 的主角。
2. “He fled the burning Troy”：他逃離燃燒中的特洛伊。 “flee, fled, fled”：逃離。
3. “after it was sacked by the Greeks”：在它被希臘人劫掠之後。 “sack”：劫掠、掠奪。
4. “bearing his aged father Anchises on his back”：背著他年邁的父親Anchises。 “bear … on one's back”：背...在某人背上。
5. “and leading his young son Ascanius”：還帶領著他年輕的兒子 Ascanius。
6. “Guided and protected by his divine mother, Aphrodite”：被他的神母 Aphrodite 引導與保護著。 “divine mother”：身為神的母親。此句是分詞構句，等於 “As he was guided and protected …” (因為有其神母之引導與保護)。
7. “he finally became the founder of Rome”：他最後變成羅馬的創建人。 “founder”：創建人。
8. “Before he reached Italy, however,”：但是，在他到達義大利之前。
9. “he had a love affair with Dido, the Queen of Carthage”：他跟迦太基的皇后 Dido 有一樁戀情。 “have a (love) affair with …”：與 … 有戀情。
10. “But Jupiter bade him depart from his love”：但邱彼得 (天王) 命令他離開他的愛人。 “bid, bade, bidden”：吩咐、命令。 “love”：被愛的人。 “lover”則是「愛人的人」。
注意： “bid + 受詞 + 原形動詞”。他例： “Bid him come immediately” (命他立刻來)。
11. “and seek the kingdom promised to him”：而尋求答應給他的王國。
12. “Seeing that he was gone”：看到他走了(不見了)。
13. “Dido killed her self with the funeral pyre”：Dido 用火葬的柴堆自殺。 “pyre”是火葬用的「柴堆」。 “funeral”是「喪葬」。
14. “which she had built for the occasion”：那是她為此場合建好的。 Dido 建柴堆自焚。
15. 這段敘述 Aeneas 的劫難，也述及他為江山而棄美人。詳情請看The Aeneid (《羅馬建國記》)。
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