There is no fence or hedge around time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

过去的岁月没有围墙和篱笆，如果你把它珍藏记忆中，便可以回到从前，并重新获得你所喜爱的。

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There is no fence or hedge around time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough. — John Ruskin.

过去的岁月没有围墙和篱笆，如果你把它珍藏于记忆中，便可以回到从前并重新获得你所喜爱的一切。——罗斯金。

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Where the towns meet and merge there's plenty of space for people who want to take time to decide, or indeed to settle down and never need to, because the truth is that there is no fence.

而在这些边缘地带，有许多小镇聚集、融合，无论是需要时间去做决定的人、确实想定居下来的人还是无需考虑的人都有其足够的容身之处——因为那里不会有围栏。

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There is no fence. They come across this barrier, right up here.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

There are no gravestones or grand mausoleums - just a patch of bare grass surrounded by a simple wooden fence.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

No censorship." Looted businesses in Kyrgyzstan attest to lawless citizens just as high-caliber bullet holes in the fence surrounding the Kyrgyz White House attest to lawless government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Locals complain that there is no perimeter fence.

CNN: NUCLEAR FALLOUT

It would also highlight the fact that a country that has remained silently "friendly" to the US can no longer sit on the fence, quietly benefiting from its arrangement with the superpower.

BBC: Ireland suffers identity crisis over neutrality

Yet no one pretends that the bigger fence of racial disharmony can be so easily demolished.

ECONOMIST: The Jasper trial