It suggests both the difference between the earlier Yeats and the middle Yeats, but also importantly the kinds of continuity between them the ways in which Yeats remained very much the same poet.

这首诗表明了叶芝,早期和中期作品的差别，但很重要的是这两个时期,存在着一种延续性,叶芝作为诗人基本还是那样。

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So, you have this tremendous continuity between the sort of the honor code that was so dominant in the Homeric world, which has now been shifted to the larger unit, which is the polis.

现在你对荣耀法则的变迁应当有所了解了,荷马时期的主流是个人英雄主义,逐渐演变成现在对更广泛的集体,也就是对城邦的担当

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And archaeology supports this picture of merging of peoples, a picture of the merging of peoples, rather than conquest or even large-scale immigration, because the new settlements in this period show such continuity with the past, not a complete break, not the initiation of something radically new.

考古学肯定了民族的融合，多个民族相融合的图景，而不是征服或者是大规模的移民，因为这一时期新的定居表明,与过去的连续继承，而不是完全的断裂，不是完全的新的开始。

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They also, like J, want to assert a continuity, but in doing so, they do it in a way that really ultimately draws attention to the fundamental discontinuity, the sense of a new beginning.

他们也像J来源一样想保持一种统一延续性，虽这样做，他们却用了不同的方式,此方法最后却将人们的注意力吸引于非延续性，一种新的开始。

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