(SAYING) He says he was shocked to learn that when the Khmer Rouge took power,they emptied out the capital Phnom Penh at gun point and sent millions of people, including the old and sick, to toil in the countryside.

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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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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选