It symbolizes death, perhaps to suggest that the enemy below are to 17 perish or that Boccioni was already starting to acknowledge the horror of war as well as its excitement.

或许它暗示着它下面的敌人的毁灭，又或许波丘尼当时已经清楚地知道，与战争的兴奋共存的是它的惨烈。

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"I got tired of sleeping in tents, " he tells me, "but what we did was very important because we knew our guys were down below, in contact with the enemy."

“我厌倦了睡帐篷，”他告诉我说，“但我们做的事情非常重要，因为我们知道，我们的人在下面，与敌人面对面接触。”

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Every one got up and busily watched the movements of our troops below, which could be seen as in the hollow of a hand, and the movements of the advancing enemy.

全体都站立起来，观察那了若指掌的山下我军的动态，观察那逐渐靠近的敌军的动态。

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