当火车经过西点军校时，我们猜想军校的学生们在做些什么。 西点军校在高高的山坡上，显得神秘而广大，在暮色中散发着光亮。

We guessed what the students at West Point might be doing as we passed; the institution looked so mysteriously vast, twinkling in the gloaming, high up on the hills.

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为了当一名军官，波在进入美国西点军校前当了两年兵，1831年，在他入学半年后被西点军校开除，那时，他已经出版了三部诗集。

Poe served in the Army for two years, before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point to become an officer. He was dismissed from the academy in eighteen thirty-one after six months.

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Of course Jefferson Davis really preferred to be a military officer and went to West Point and on and on and on, and the rest is history.

当然,杰斐逊·戴维斯,更愿意成为军官,因此去了西点军校学习等等,他余下的生活就如历史所述

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