“是的，”波维里先生答道，“在一八一六或1817年的时候，我曾亲眼见过这个人，我们要到他的地牢里去时，总得带一排兵同去才行。”

"Yes," replied M. DE Boville; "I myself had occasion to see this man in 1816 or 1817, and we could only go into his dungeon with a file of soldiers."

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为了当一名军官，波在进入美国西点军校前当了两年兵，1831年，在他入学半年后被西点军校开除，那时，他已经出版了三部诗集。

Poe served in the Army for two years, before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point to become an officer. He was dismissed from the academy in eighteen thirty-one after six months.

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