In other words, Buckle was the avatar of the notion in the late nineteenth century that everything was going to hell in a handbasket.

换言之，十九世纪后期有一种观念认为所有事物都在迅速恶化,而巴尔克则是这种观念的化身。

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Pearse is seen as, in Yeats's poetry and in popular lore, as Cuchulain, as a kind of avatar of the mythic Irish hero.

在叶芝的诗里皮尔斯被看作是，民间传说中，的英雄王库丘林，是爱尔兰神话里下凡的天神。

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