Yeats is talking about an event that has brought forth destruction, destruction of the world before the Easter Uprising.

叶芝描绘了这样一个事件,它带来了毁灭，对复活节前世界的毁灭。

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The world dissolves. So corruption and injustice and lawlessness and violence inevitably bring about destruction.

世界将被毁灭，而人类的堕落，目无法纪,暴力成性，势必会带来这种毁灭。

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most people around the world, all religions and most people in most countries at most times, believe that people can survive the destruction of their bodies.

世界上大多数人,在大多数时间里,多数国家的所有宗教,以及绝大多数人民,都相信人们能够做到身体消亡而灵魂不灭

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