The Germans,by a remarkable combination of air bombing and heavily armored tanks, have broken through the French defenses north of the Maginot Line, and strong columns of their armored vehicles are ravaging the open country, which for the first day or two was without defenders.

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It's when I'm weary of considerations And life is too much like a pathless wood ; Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open.

那是每逢我厌倦于操心世事,而人生太像一片没有小径的森林,在里面摸索，一头撞在蛛网上，只感到验上又热辣，又痒痒，忽然，一根嫩枝迎面打来,那一只给打中了的眼睛疼得直掉泪。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It's when I'm weary of considerations And life is too much like a pathless wood ; Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open.

那是每逢我厌倦于操心世事,而人生太像一片没有小径的森林,在里面摸索，一头撞在蛛网上，只感到验上又热辣，又痒痒，忽然，一根嫩枝迎面打来,那一只给打中了的眼睛疼得直掉泪。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选