We, of course, know as we read the prelude to this poem that this is a work consumed with questions of temporal disjunction, with that problem of temporal discontinuity.

当然我们理解这首诗的序曲,这首诗里有许多暂时脱节，还有暂时的不连续的问题。

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The Greek world has this tremendous discontinuity.

而希腊的文明则是不连续的

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They also, like J, want to assert a continuity, but in doing so, they do it in a way that really ultimately draws attention to the fundamental discontinuity, the sense of a new beginning.

他们也像J来源一样想保持一种统一延续性，虽这样做，他们却用了不同的方式,此方法最后却将人们的注意力吸引于非延续性，一种新的开始。

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