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)。

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.

在这文类之中并没有对个别之人的赞扬，而是对雅典人整体歌颂，而这又进一步的晚话成为对市民城邦之伟大的咏叹。