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L# A1 S+ Q- [8 h) Pprest: (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of press.+ h6 I; R- v0 `2 g# u* S
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paraphrase:
3 P! r' m% N9 d) l. {6 N- 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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The 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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& m5 F) W, e6 x1 e+ tFitzGerald’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.
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9 _9 N( M7 x- |- ~. O作者笔记(译稿):' V1 P2 [% B& B
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.
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% e5 |" E% F. P0 h3 Q% N4 SI 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 G1 o4 x/ J+ P
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carpe diem! 我们永远不知道明天和泥头车谁先到来。+ A& C0 E% i5 b2 \2 d* M
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https://www.bobforrestweb.co.uk/ ... _by_verse_notes.htm
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