II Only thin smoke without flame ; From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass.

只有没有火焰的烟,从茅草堆中冒出;,然而这还是会照样向前,即使朝代更迭。

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There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

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