Contrast his images of joyous or demonic assent with the images of catastrophe, of descent, of collapse in Eliot, "London Bridge is falling down."

对比他关于喜悦或着迷的描写,这些都是和灾难，对衰退的描写，或者艾略特描写的崩塌“伦敦桥在倒塌“，相一致的“

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I won't sing for you or give you my Italian, but these famous lines, "London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down" and so on, these come from the conclusion to The Waste Land.

我不会给你唱出来或者秀我的意大利文，但是这些著名的词句，“伦敦桥在倒塌“,“在倒塌，在倒塌“，以及种种，这些是从《荒原》的结束语中来的。

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So you pick a better material like iron and steel, that makes a better bridge, we know that now because we have experience with bridges, but still your bridge might fail.

你选择了钢铁作为材料,来造了一座更好的桥,我们现在能够明晰这一点,是因为在造桥这件事上我们现在很有经验,但即使是我们现在造的桥也仍然会倒塌

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