The point is simply to recognize that the apples are occult symbols, which is to say they're not apples.

关键是要认识,苹果是神秘主义的象征，就是说它们并不是苹果。

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But, what is that larger mystical body?We have been given one candidate: that it's America, that it's somehow America.

但这个更大的神秘主义主体是什么？，我们能够从文中：,找到的一个可能性是，美国，可以说是美国。

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That puzzle aside, it seems to me that once we become physicalists, there's nothing especially deep or mysterious about death.

除了这个谜团，在我看来似乎在成为物理主义者之后，死亡并没有什么深刻和神秘的了。

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This occult Yeats is a genuinely and wonderfully strange thinker.

在神秘主义方面，叶芝,真是个奇异的思想者。

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But there's nothing mysterious about death from the physicalist point of view, at least about the basic idea of what's going on in death.

但是死亡没有什么神秘可言,从物理主义的角度来看,至少死亡的基本定义是不神秘的

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The occult gives Yeats aesthetic forms for understanding individual psychology and historical event.

神秘主义使叶芝从美学角度,理解个人的心理,和历史事件。

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Here, as elsewhere in Yeats' poetry, it's not essential for you to be able to pursue his occult learning and decode his symbols in order to read his poetry.

这首诗还有他的其他诗里，研究他的神秘主义学习,和解释这些象征对读他的诗,来说不是很重要。

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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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One consequence of this view is that for Yeats history starts to look like a poem, or it starts to conform to laws of poetic imagination or of tragedy, if you like, of myth.

这导致了,叶芝的历史观诗化了，或说是符合悲剧中,诗意想象的规律了，也可以说，神秘主义了。

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