On Monday I stressed that poetry was, for Frost, always a mode of work, and that work was for him a model of poetic activity.

星期一我强调过诗歌对弗罗斯特来说，是工作的一种形式，这种工作对他来说是一种诗般的运动。

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As a model of economic activity or as a kind of vocation guide, this parable couldn't be more opposed -- or to some wouldn't seem more opposed - to the parable of the unprofitable servant.

作为一种经济活动,或者职业引导的典型,这则寓言于那个没获利的仆人的,寓言截然相反。

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