"Manifest destiny,and so forth. And I think most of the world probably feels it is in the same situation as Astrix and his village Gaullois in that we can identify with that sense of wanting to hold out and resist against the encroaching powers.

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Yeats is talking about an event that has brought forth destruction, destruction of the world before the Easter Uprising.

叶芝描绘了这样一个事件,它带来了毁灭，对复活节前世界的毁灭。

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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

这是从那个被咬的苹果皮外来的，善恶的知识，像一对双胞胎分开但又在一起，一起在人间前进。

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