Miz Carlsten says the children loved to watch the big glass jar fill up quickly.

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Well, in any case the jar is just arbitrarily in the middle of that, organizing everything without participating in the nature of anything.

好，无论如何坛子只是被随意地放置在了自由游戏之中，组织一切，却不参与任何事物的本质。

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I am sure you recognize this as Stevens' "Anecdote of the Jar," but I will quickly quote to you the poem.

大家一定知道这首诗就是史蒂文斯的《坛子轶事》,但是我还是想快速地给大家读一下。

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The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air.

圆圆的坛子置在地上,高高地立于空中。

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The jar was gray and bare.

这只灰色无釉的坛子。

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