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prest = pressed
5 c; E' r9 {" ?prest: (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of press.- f' k; Y' R- W; }6 \
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paraphrase:
9 |* |3 `2 f+ m# w; S: o% g"Lo! Some that we loved as the best that time and fate could produce have already drunk their cup and now lie at rest."1 q; Z1 c& D! u# J
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1 p- m! }3 l2 }/ d' e* TThe 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).0 D Z1 j! q/ Z! L) E' o
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FitzGerald’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., q8 b/ d" B7 u: z' P4 p
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作者笔记（译稿）：" ] ?2 K* ^+ `* o& Y2 v, ? C
The 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." t7 m7 w( p% {: i# v8 m
k% |+ ]( G& R, ?' DI 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?”9 [! }) @) ~$ V" t5 m$ {3 j6 K$ n
8 o' `( \ g5 ?2 Y# B$ q3 d, Scarpe diem! 我们永远不知道明天和泥头车谁先到来。
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& i& w4 ]3 F1 p7 x参考：9 D; m6 d' f' z
https://www.bobforrestweb.co.uk/ ... _by_verse_notes.htm
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