Frost says at the time that he's publishing A Boy's Will, to a friend: You mustn't take me too seriously if I now proceed to brag a bit about my exploits as a poet.

他在发表第一本书时对一个朋友说：,不要对我太认真,如果我现在吹嘘自己已是一位诗人。

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We can't take seriously the suggestion that there's no way at all to tell whether it was still me from the one day to the next, from one hour to the next, from one minute to the next, just not plausible.

我们不能太相信,我们完全没有办法,知道每一天,每个小时，每分钟，自己还是不是自己，这不仅仅是貌似可信的。

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