Embroidery work involves using colored yarn and a needle to create designs on the surface of cloth.

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The embroidery and decoration, all that now seems inauthentic, something that, in fact Yeats's audience had failed to value properly he's complaining here in this poem.

那些刺绣和装饰，所有那些看起来不真实的，所有他的读者未能正确欣赏的,他在这首诗里都有抱怨。

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One famous example of embroidery work is called the Bayeux Tapestry.

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What is left is pure embroidery.

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