Yeats is talking about an event that has brought forth destruction, destruction of the world before the Easter Uprising.

叶芝描绘了这样一个事件,它带来了毁灭，对复活节前世界的毁灭。

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Well, in recent times, I mean,9/11 was a really dramatic event in world history here.

近期的话，9/11是美国历史上惊天动地的大事件。

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This is the big financial event that is hitting the United States and the entire world right now.

这就是那个正在影响,美国和全世界的,重大金融事件

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For my perspective, even if you understand God to be the creator of the world, I don't think that means that God is causing a certain natural event to happen at certain time.

从我的角度来说，即使你明白,上帝是世界的创造者，但这并不意味着上帝,导致了某个自然界的现象在特定的时间发生。

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And more immediately, this weekend, as all of you are thinking the most event in the world was whatever was happening in Congress to do with Iraq, actually, the most important event in the world was taking place in England where my favorite team, portsmouth, were playing Kaj, the head TA's favorite team, Liverpool.

再举个最近的例子吧,比如这周末,在场的各位都觉得世界上最重要的事,是国会对伊拉克采取何种行动,但我觉得最重要的事发生在英格兰,我最喜爱的足球队,朴茨茅斯队,对抗助教长卡茄最喜爱的利物浦队

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