The longing heart accumulates desires that become in time a kind of volatile waste, which can't be contained.

渴望的心聚集欲望,假以时日便成了,会挥发不能抑制的废物。

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So, in a way, by longing to be where they were when they were children, by longing to inhabit that time, as well, he wants to become them.

所以，他用一种方式去怀念，渴望去这群人还是孩子时，生活过的地方，渴望经历那种时光，也渴望成为他们之一。

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This is ambition for a career, but it's also a desire for personal autonomy. For Frost, poetry is invested with a longing for autonomy in, well, both simple and complex senses.

这是事业心，也是一种,个人自由的渴望，对他来说，诗歌是,结合了自由的渴望，呈现出一种既简单又复杂的感觉。

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But on the other hand these advances have also come at a cost. And in this story there's also a sense of longing for the freedom of life in the wild--the innocent, simple, uncomplicated life lived day to day without plans, without toil, in harmony with nature Edenic a somewhat Edenic existence.

但是，换个角度来看，人类付出了代价,才得到这些优点，在这部史诗中，同样存在着,对一种纯真，简单，纯粹生活的向往,每天生活中没有计划，辛劳，与自然和平相处,就像以前的。

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