This is actually a recurrent figure in the early poems, isn't it wonderful that there's a term for being turned to marble?

这事实上是在早期诗歌多次出现的一个形象，有一个术语形容变成石头，是不是很美妙？

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So with sarcophagi and just like, different stones from the pyramids and statues.

有石棺，还有金字塔和雕像上的各种石头。

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Thou does make us Marble with too much conceiving," Milton had told Shakespeare in that poem.

你把我们变成了一个有太多设想的石头“,弥尔顿在这首诗中这样告诉莎士比亚。

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It involves a stone, a piece of lapis lazuli that has a kind of a flaw in it, which is like a "water-course," and where one can imagine a pilgrim climbing toward increased enlightenment.

提到了一块石头,一块有瑕疵的青金石，就像河道“,我们可以想象,一个朝圣者慢慢靠近神启。

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instead of a stone dropping, nowadays there's a monkey that's falling down.

现在就不是丢石头了,而是有只猴子掉下来了

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