他最怕的是被活活烧死。

His greatest fear is of being burnt alive.

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会发生爆炸，而我们会被活活烧死。

There'll be an explosion, and we'll be burned alive.

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如果你是位男子，被处死的方式则主要是吊起来活活烧死。

If you're a man, maybe you'll be hung by your wrists and burned alive.

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And the poem goes on, and this is the tone of a poem. It's a poem of crisis, a poem of a kind of hollow speaker, someone who emerges as, more or less, buried alive. And this is supposed to reflect both personal crisis and a historical crisis.

然后这首诗继续娓娓道来，这就是诗歌的韵律,这是首关于危机的诗，关于一个有点言之无物的叙述者,最后活活烧死的诗，这恰好反映了,个人和历史的危机。

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