Jumblatt,however, blasted Hezbollah for using the release for political capital and questioned whether more political assassinations were in the cards now that the men were free: He says that the release of the generals was a sad spectacle, because they were symbols of the former Syrian tutelage over Lebanon, reminding us of the bad,old days.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

He saw the sad nightingales nodding on the branches and they reminded him of his mother. A gray shroud fell over the city.

他见过悲伤的夜莺在枝头打盹,这些让他想起他的母亲，灰色的寿衣落在这城市。

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