I think it's possible to see that "they" as the sort of general forces of modernity, of everything at odds with the aristocratic culture Yeats and these women shared, inhabited.

我认为可以把它们看作“,某种现代性的力量，所有和贵族文化不一致的,叶芝和两个女人所共有的。

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And at the very end, there's like two women, and he was supposed to propose to one of them,

在最后的环节，有两个女人，他本打算向其中一个求婚来着，

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At that point Yeats was--1894, Yeats is 29, and the two women were slightly younger.

894年当时叶芝29岁，两个女人年纪稍轻。

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But all of this is overthrown, "changed utterly," by the radical politics that altered Ireland during Yeats's lifetime, that announced the coming of modernity and that these two women themselves participated in centrally.

但这一切被推翻了，完全改变“,被叶芝时期的爱尔兰,的那场激进政治革命改变了，他宣告了现代的到来,这两个女人亲身参与其中。

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