He has that phrase, / "Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak / to the earnest love that laid the swale in rows.

他写了这样一句，任何超过真理的东西都显得很脆弱/,用最真挚的爱意割下一排排草。

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In "Mowing," the poem's lines are like sweeps of the scythe as it lays down rows of swale. Frost wants us to think about that.

在“割草“中字里行间就像是镰刀扫过,当它放倒一排排的麦子时，弗罗斯特想要我们仔细思考。

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The word "swale" is interesting. You hear in it the s and the w, the two key sounds of this poem, which are the sounds of the whispering scythe.

沼泽地“这个词很有意思，听到S和W的发音了吧，这是这首诗的关键发音，也是低语着的镰刀的声音。

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