和过去打交道让我感觉太拘束了，就像我写的东西必须是事实，不能虚构，但写与未来有关的东西给了我更多的自由去想象，去创作。

I felt too constrained working with the past, like what I wrote needed to be fact as opposed to fiction, but writing about the future gave me more freedom to imagine, to invent.

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我在2004年开始写我的新书《被掩埋的巨人》，但在给妻子看了一小部分之后，我就停止创作了。

I began working on my latest book, The Buried Giant, in 2004, but I stopped after I showed my wife a little section.

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她写故事，为四姐妹的同台表演创作剧本。

She writes stories. And she creates plays that the sisters perform together.

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Or whether or not they had no idea what they were doing, and they've given themselves over to this process.

还是说诗人并不完全理解自己写的文字，而是在创作过程中完全超然忘我。

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Yeats is obviously writing in the context of an Irish civil war, but it's also the case that he's writing in the shadow of the First World War as well.

叶芝显然是在爱尔兰国内战争时期进行创作的，但是同时他也是在,一战的阴影下写的。

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Now shortly after Milton composed the sonnet "How soon hath Time," he wrote a letter to a friend in which he enclosed this poem, the sonnet.

在他创作“时间过得真快“后不久“,他给朋友写了封信，把这首十四行诗也附了进去。

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