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 there's a lot of similarities in culture and certain parts of the city.

这两个城市在文化等一些方面有些相似。

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