In "Mowing," the scythe makes a sound as it cuts, and that sound is delicate, it's quiet, it whispers.

在“割草“中镰刀割草时发出声响，这个声音很微弱，安静，像低声细语。

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There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.

树林边静悄悄，只有一点声音，那是我的长镰在对大地低语。

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My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make" returns us to the work of mowing and the work of reading and interpretation and deciphering.

我的长长的镰刀低语着留下一堆稻草“,这让我们重新回到割草的劳动中,来朗读，解释，解密这首诗歌。

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These are dimensions of communication that I've been identifying in "Mowing" with the whisper of the scythe, that is, a tone of meaning or a way of meaning.

这是谈话的特点,这个是我在“割草“中提到的“,镰刀的低语，这就是，一种语调蕴含的意思或者是一种方式的意义。

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My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.

我的长镰低语，离开一堆堆干草。

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In "Mowing," the poem's lines are like sweeps of the scythe as it lays down rows of swale. Frost wants us to think about that.

在“割草“中字里行间就像是镰刀扫过,当它放倒一排排的麦子时，弗罗斯特想要我们仔细思考。

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The whisper of the scythe then.

这就是镰刀的低语。

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But cutting is something fearful and forceful; it's a kind of controlled violence. Frost takes it for granted that we will remember that the scythe is a conventional image for time, which harvests all of us in death.

但是割草是很有力的也是很可怕的;,这是一种控制中的蛮力，弗罗斯特认为,我们将把镰刀作为时代的产物记住，镰刀一直收获直到我们死去。

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The word "swale" is interesting. You hear in it the s and the w, the two key sounds of this poem, which are the sounds of the whispering scythe.

沼泽地“这个词很有意思，听到S和W的发音了吧，这是这首诗的关键发音，也是低语着的镰刀的声音。

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He invites us to hear the sweep of the scythe in those s sounds themselves, I think, and maybe even to hear the workers huff and puff, his rhythmic exhalation in the w's, which alternate and interact with those s's.

他让我们倾听镰刀扫过的声音,我觉得应该是这些s的发音上,也可能是听着劳动者的喘息声，他的有节奏的w似的发声，跟s音交替着互动。

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