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He was a famous Trojan leader and the hero of Virgil's
Aeneid. He fled the burning
[解说] 1. “He was a famous Trojan leader and the hero of Virgil's Aeneid”：他是个有名的特洛伊领导人，也是味吉尔《罗马建国记》(The Aeneid) 的主角。
2. “He fled the burning Troy”：他逃离燃烧中的特洛伊。 “flee, fled, fled”：逃离。
3. “after it was sacked by the Greeks”：在它被希腊人劫掠之后。 “sack”：劫掠、掠夺。
4. “bearing his aged father Anchises on his back”：背着他年迈的父亲Anchises。 “bear … on one's back”：背...在某人背上。
5. “and leading his young son Ascanius”：还带领着他年轻的儿子 Ascanius。
6. “Guided and protected by his divine mother, Aphrodite”：被他的神母 Aphrodite 引导与保护着。 “divine mother”：身为神的母亲。此句是分词构句，等于 “As he was guided and protected …” (因为有其神母之引导与保护)。
7. “he finally became the founder of Rome”：他最后变成罗马的创建人。 “founder”：创建人。
8. “Before he reached Italy, however,”：但是，在他到达意大利之前。
9. “he had a love affair with Dido, the Queen of Carthage”：他跟迦太基的皇后 Dido 有一桩恋情。 “have a (love) affair with …”：与 … 有恋情。
10. “But Jupiter bade him depart from his love”：但邱彼得 (天王) 命令他离开他的爱人。 “bid, bade, bidden”：吩咐、命令。 “love”：被爱的人。 “lover”则是「爱人的人」。
注意： “bid + 受词 + 原形动词”。他例： “Bid him come immediately” (命他立刻来)。
11. “and seek the kingdom promised to him”：而寻求答应给他的王国。
12. “Seeing that he was gone”：看到他走了(不见了)。
13. “Dido killed her self with the funeral pyre”：Dido 用火葬的柴堆自杀。 “pyre”是火葬用的「柴堆」。 “funeral”是「丧葬」。
14. “which she had built for the occasion”：那是她为此场合建好的。 Dido 建柴堆自焚。
15. 这段叙述 Aeneas 的劫难，也述及他为江山而弃美人。详情请看The Aeneid (《罗马建国记》)。
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