Imagine standing in the middle of the Utah desert on a warm summer day.

设想某个温暖的夏日,你身处犹他州的沙漠深处。

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Just look at those lines again: rom Morn to Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summer's day.

再看看这几行诗：,从早晨到中午，从中午到黄昏，在整整一个长夏的日子。

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It's been drawn out and spatialized. It's as if it's been spatialized into a scene of a beautiful summer's day, and we're left contemplating not the punishment of evil but - I don't know, one of the things we're left contemplating is the sheer beauty of Homeric poetry.

这被描绘出并且空间化了，成为一个,美丽夏日的景象，我们被留予思考的,不是对邪恶的惩罚而是,-我不知道，我们被留予思考的,是荷马风格史诗的十足美好。

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