I imagine that you all have images of Robert Frost and actual images in your mind when you think of this poet.

我觉得你们对弗罗斯特都有一定的印象,当想到这个诗人的时候脑海就会浮现他的图像。

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You know, he had a series of drawings he did that were just different characters he came up within his mind

他有一系列展示他脑海中所构想的各种角色的绘画作品。

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Can you make a novel, as he says in the essay, that will "sprout wings and grow claws" in secret in his mind? That's an image taken from the metamorphosis of the butterfly within the chrysalis.

你能够让一本小说，就像他在那篇文章里说的那样，会在他,脑海里秘密的“展开翅膀，伸出爪子“？，这是从蝴蝶羽化中,借鉴来的比喻。

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