The myth that Yeats takes up is of Zeus's rape of the maiden, Leda, whom he attacks as a swan.

叶芝此诗的神话原型是,宙斯强暴了一个美女，丽达，宙斯变成天鹅侵犯了她。

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They are, in a sense, compressed and imaged and contained in the rape itself.

它们在某种程度上，已经被浓缩，构想，包含于,这次强暴本身之中了。

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