Updike outlived his friend by twenty-seven years-long enough to offer his own encomium at Cheever's funeral, and in.
厄普代克比他的朋友多活了二十七个春秋——并在奇弗的葬礼上宣读了他写的溢美吊辞(吊辞见纽约人杂志)。
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In this genre there is no praise of individual; it is a laudation of the collective Athenians, which is turned into an encomium of the greatness of the polis.