Hesiod is not alone in saying, for God's sake try not to take a voyage at sea because your chances of coming back are really bad, which was a reality to a degree.

赫西奥德不是唯一一个说,看在上帝的份上不要试图在海上航行,因为你几乎不可能返航,在某种程度上这是实话

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Trouble the Water; a novel about growing up in the South by Melvin Dixon, a great novel that gets little attention, and his lifelong struggle to understand just how Southern he was in New York.

再如梅尔文·迪克逊的《水的困扰》,是一本关于南方的成长经历的小说,一本伟大却不出名的小说,他终其一生都在试图理解,为何他在纽约那么像个南方人

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The relationship between the depth of the speaker's feeling and the obscurity of Lucy in the world is the irony that the speaker wants to lay hold of and that reconciles what seem like disparate facts in the poem.

说话者感情的深度,和Lucy现实世界的阻碍,是一种讽刺，说话者试图,在诗里协调不可能的事情。

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