Bull Run must have been a fearful sight.

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So it might, if men had not found out" and here's her phrase worth remembering-- "a fearful alchemy by which this blood can be transformed into gold.

如果人们还没意识到的话,的确应该这样,这里有一段应该记住,"那是一种可怕的炼金术,将鲜血血炼成黄金

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A fearful alchemy that's a useful definition of slavery.

可怕的炼金术,那是奴隶制的一个有建设性的定义

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But cutting is something fearful and forceful; it's a kind of controlled violence. Frost takes it for granted that we will remember that the scythe is a conventional image for time, which harvests all of us in death.

但是割草是很有力的也是很可怕的;,这是一种控制中的蛮力，弗罗斯特认为,我们将把镰刀作为时代的产物记住，镰刀一直收获直到我们死去。

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