Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust-- Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

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What kind of knowledge, if any, can be had from the shattering experiences of revolution or rape, those models of history that I proposed last time?

什么知识能从我上次讲到的,历史形式的的粉碎性的经验里，比如革命或者强奸里获得？

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Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells - Shattering and avalanching on the snow crust-- Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

阳光的温暖接着使那水晶的硬壳,从树枝上崩落，一齐倾泻在雪地上-,这么一大堆碎玻璃尽够你打扫,你还以为是天顶的华盖塌了下来。

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It promises something like the power of God as he brings the shattering close of the entire Christian narrative to an end at the Last Judgment and beyond.

它承诺了类似上帝权力,上帝为所有基督教徒带来了令人震惊的结局,在最后审判日及以后的日子，以叙述方式带来了结束。

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Yeats seems to be insisting through Jane on the necessity of shattering experience to achieve unity of being, which Yeats imagines, again, as the union of opposites.

叶芝似乎通过珍妮坚持,认为经过破碎达到存在的统一,的必要性，所谓的统一，叶芝想象的还是相对立事物的统一。

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