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prest = pressed
- @: N) C5 Q2 }) [2 E1 jprest: (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of press.
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paraphrase:4 y; H/ O& r7 G& e$ K! l
"Lo! Some that we loved as the best that time and fate could produce have already drunk their cup and now lie at rest."
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解读：
$ }! b4 n( U& s* b9 G/ _- q6 L+ I4 CThe best of humanity is likened to a good wine Vintage; their lives are likened to drinking a cup of wine before they creep off to Rest (die).
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. F" V" e0 `) C6 j$ B% PFitzGerald’s phrase “some we loved, the loveliest and the best” recalls the poignant events surrounding the composer Berlioz and the re-burial of his two wives./ y1 B$ w# _, Y" l
3 l* V4 i0 a, c$ \' K, k作者笔记（译稿）：
3 _# W$ C7 b2 R3 jThe two dead women lie there now in peace, awaiting the time when I shall bring my own share of corruption to the same charnel-house.. }+ P P- L* F3 s I9 t: ]! ^
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I am in my sixty-first year; past hopes, past illusions, past high thoughts and lofty conceptions. My son is almost always far away from me. I am alone. My contempt for the folly and baseness of mankind, my hatred of its atrocious cruelty, have never been so intense. And I say hourly to Death: ‘When you will.’ Why does he delay?”
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carpe diem! 我们永远不知道明天和泥头车谁先到来。* j6 u: |* ]6 K7 f4 e. r4 q3 G. Q
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