Poet Laureate

基本解釋

When I first read this line by England’s Poet Laureate, it startled me.
第一次讀到英國(guó)桂冠詩(shī)人梅斯菲爾德的這行詩(shī)時(shí)，我感到十分震驚。
One girl finally ventures, pronouncing the former poet laureate’s name as if he were a discount supermarket chain. “Yes, ” Payling says.
終於有一個(gè)女生大膽地發(fā)言，但唸出前桂冠詩(shī)人的名字時(shí)徬彿他是連鎖便民超市。
Yet it was inescapable that he should be lauded as Palestine’s poet laureate, and not merely because his words were made into popular songs and splashed as headlines to sell newspapers.
然而，無(wú)可廻避，他理應(yīng)被譽(yù)爲(wèi)巴勒斯坦的桂冠詩(shī)人，這不僅僅是因爲(wèi)他的話被編作流行歌謠竝被刊作報(bào)紙頭條以刺激報(bào)紙銷售。

The United States Library of Congress appoints an official poet, called the Poet Laureate, every one to two years.
For example, in April of nineteen ninety-eight, Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky launched the Favorite Poem Project.
He served as Poet Laureate from two thousand four to two thousand six.

Ryan, the current U.S. Poet Laureate, writes frequently for The New Yorker and The Atlantic.
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The poet laureate is the official poet of a country or a state who is usually appointed for a fixed period.