Thus in human life we make a brave show, before the scythe of pain, the shears of disappointment, the sickle of death.

人生也同样在其痛苦的刈割,失望的收剪,和伤残的芟削之前,表现出勇敢的精神。

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Death is often pictured as a skeleton in a black robe, holding a scythe.

死神通常被描绘成披着黑袍、手持镰刀的骷髅。

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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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