Something might be short at one point and become tall at another point, ugly at one point and become beautiful-- like the ugly duckling.

一个事物可能在某一时刻很矮,然后在另一时刻又会变高,某一时刻很丑,然后变得很美,就像丑小鸭一样

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I write it out in a verse-- MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.

我在诗中把它表达出来-,麦克多纳和麦克布莱德,还有康诺利和皮尔斯,现在，或是将来，那所有披上绿色的地方，一切都变了，彻底变了：,一种惊人的美已经诞生。

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