钱包——代表着由来已久的周末前夕对于美好肥宅的欢快憧憬——难道不是象征着某些重要的事情吗？

Doesn't a wallet—that time honoured Friday night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters?

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不是象征性的，而是当真这么做。

Not symbolically, but really believe in that and do it.

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这是不是象征善永远战胜恶？

Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil?

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The point is simply to recognize that the apples are occult symbols, which is to say they're not apples.

关键是要认识,苹果是神秘主义的象征，就是说它们并不是苹果。

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Here, as elsewhere in Yeats' poetry, it's not essential for you to be able to pursue his occult learning and decode his symbols in order to read his poetry.

这首诗还有他的其他诗里，研究他的神秘主义学习,和解释这些象征对读他的诗,来说不是很重要。

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The man is not a real man, the man is a symbol; only this time, a symbol of the real, a symbol of the actual and local of the Irish race and the reality.

这个人不是真正的人而是象征;,只是这次是真实的象征,是爱尔兰民族本地的,和真实存在的象征。

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