There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

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In a sense it is an image of the English countryside at a moment in which it is being emptied out, its young men sent to France to die, a kind of no man's land already.

某种意义上它是英国乡村的写照,在一个被清空的时刻，年轻的男人被送到法国受死，已经是没有人的土地。

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