"The original idea for Stockbridge at Christmas was actually conceived in 1956,'57 when Hallmark card corresponds with Rockwell on the idea of an image of an American main street which will symbolize Christmas in America,"

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Yeats sees the Second Coming as an image, as a myth, an idea, a metaphor, a certain stylistic arrangement of experience.

叶芝把第二次降临看成一个意向，一个神话，一个意识，一个比喻，一种诗意的安排和感受。

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And it seems, therefore, that the idea of being created In the image of God is connected with those special rights and duties.

这也许就是他们被创造的原因,上帝的形象与某些特别的权利和职责有关。

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If an impure object--and you will see here these overlapping pairs, if you can imagine the lower pair sort of being plunked down on top of this pair, that will give you an idea of what we're trying to convey with this image.

如果一个不纯洁的东西--看这里，这些重叠的单词，假设这两个单词,突然跑到这两个的上面，这样你就会对我们这个图示想传达的内容有个概念。

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