丘陵和山脉通常被认为是永恒的象征，成功抵御着自然的破坏力量，但其实它们从地质学角度讲往往是相对短暂的。

Hills and mountains are often regarded as the epitome of permanence, successfully resisting the destructive forces of nature, but in fact they tend to be relatively short-lived in geological terms.

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这些神话故事中经常含有那些典型的超自然力量，人们通过举办仪式庆祝这些超自然力量或者期望能够影响它们。

Frequently the myths include representatives of those supernatural forces that the rites celebrate or hope to influence.

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您只能在实现所有方法的情况下获得最大收益，因为它们的力量来自它们之间的交互。

You only get the maximum benefit if you implement all of them because their power comes from their interaction.

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I think it's possible to see that "they" as the sort of general forces of modernity, of everything at odds with the aristocratic culture Yeats and these women shared, inhabited.

我认为可以把它们看作“,某种现代性的力量，所有和贵族文化不一致的,叶芝和两个女人所共有的。

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They seem to be going somewhere and there's this sort of force of pull or gravity in music having to do with some chords wanting to go to other chords.

和弦向某一个方向发展，就像有一股力量拉着它们,或者说音乐的重力吸引着它们，让一些和弦想行进成为另一些和弦。

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So here in the G Minor Symphony we feel as--oh, it's so full of tension, angst,anxiety, perhaps passion, it's driving somewhere, and one of the things that's driving it is its accelerating rate of harmonic change.

在G小调交响曲里我们能感觉到，哦，音乐中充满了紧张，揪心，焦虑，甚至激情，这些感情正在向某个方向涌去，吸引它们的力量之一就是不断加速的和声变化率。

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