Synge's play, The Playboy of the Western World it was set in the Aran Islands, in Western Ireland.

辛格的剧，《西方世界的花花公子》,它是在西爱尔兰的伊朗岛。

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Yeats is obviously writing in the context of an Irish civil war, but it's also the case that he's writing in the shadow of the First World War as well.

叶芝显然是在爱尔兰国内战争时期进行创作的，但是同时他也是在,一战的阴影下写的。

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You see Ireland was part of the United Kingdom at that time.

在那个时候,爱尔兰是英国的一部分。

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King Goll is a mythical Irish ruler who goes mad in the heat of battle.

郭尔王是传说中的爱尔兰统治者,他在战斗激烈时发疯了。

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Yeats was trained in the occult disciplines of Theosophy and Gnosticism. Those traditions merge in his early work with European symbolism, and also with Irish cultural nationalism.

叶芝曾受到通神论和诺斯替教,神秘主义教条的训练，这些传统,在他早期作品中与欧洲象征主义，和爱尔兰文化民族主义结合。

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Look at line fifty. This is where Milton asks the ocean nymphs where they were when Edward King's boat was lost ? while crossing the Irish Sea: why didn't you do anything?

看第50行，这里弥尔顿问海洋女神们,爱德华·金的船在穿越爱尔兰海途中失事的时候,她们在哪里：你们为什么不救他？

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It's for this second printing that Milton adds the headnote that you see here that now begins the poem: "In this Monody the Author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drown'd in his Passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637."

在第二版中，他加上了眉批,你们现在都能看到：,“周一作者缅怀了一位，不幸于1637年在爱尔兰海上,溺水而亡的挚友“

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