Another was wounded. He was pulled to land and left to die.

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If only we had died in the land of Egypt," the whole community shouted at them, "or if only we might die in this wilderness!

要是能死在埃及就好了“,人们像他们俩大喊，“或者我们能死在荒原中就好了“

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In a sense it is an image of the English countryside at a moment in which it is being emptied out, its young men sent to France to die, a kind of no man's land already.

某种意义上它是英国乡村的写照,在一个被清空的时刻，年轻的男人被送到法国受死，已经是没有人的土地。

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