一天，杨在旅途中遇到了其旧同僚王密。

One day, Yang met his old workmate Wang Mi on a trip.

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这样一座在诸多激进式变革中起着领头作用的城市竟然在最近更倾向于被依照其旧世界的主人名称命名，这自然显得很奇怪。

It is odd that a city that has been at the forefront of so many radical changes should, more recently, come to be defined by its old world character.

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有时，旧技术也能凭借其象征意义的力量得以流传几百年。

Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power.

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You can look at it with those poems in mind where Yeats imagines a new world coming into being, ushered in through the blood of the old.

你们可以回忆一下那两首诗,其中叶芝想象了一个新的世界，那从旧世界鲜血里开辟。

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