A bird with broad white wings and a long slender neck flew past Sylvie and landed on a pine branch below her.

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The blind Fury here is the mythological figure Atropos; this is the Fate that cuts the slender thread by which our lives dangle.

这里的暴怒是指神话人物阿特洛波斯;,命运剪断了维系生命的细线。

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