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In Hardy here, and in other poems, there's this sort of wonderfully, self-consciously archaic language.

哈迪的这首诗还有其他诗中，有一种,绝妙的不自然的古英语。

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Hardy wants to use really old dialect words, when he can, and there's power in that. And this is a poem composed in 1915.

哈迪在他可以的时候总是想使用真正的古代方言，而在其中是有力量的，这是一首在1915年作的诗。

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There's a kind of colloquial clarity and confidence, quite different from the vernacular language in the Hardy poems I was just reading, which are also poems of the countryside.

有一种口语式的清晰和自信，与哈迪诗中的地方语言十分不同,我也在阅读关于乡村的诗歌。

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And "Channel Firing," on the bottom of 51, is also set in the west of England, Hardy's home country, and is set right on the verge of the First World War.

海峡炮声》在51页的下半部分，也是发生在英格兰西部，哈迪的祖国，并且也是发生在一战临近时期的。

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