It's difficult to imagine that as an expression of genuine grief over the death of a genuinely close friend would take the form of a poem so learned, so filled with remote literary allusions and obscure opinions.

这首诗是为表达对挚友逝去的真挚悲痛,却采取了这样一种如此博学，如此充满,遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点的形式,这确实是难以想象的。

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Now this isn't the first time in this course that I've paused over a moment at a crossroads where you can't possibly take both paths but where it is obviously very, very difficult to make up one's mind.

现在是这个课程中第一次,在一个分叉路口停下,我们不可能同时走两条路,但是这也显然是非常难以决定的一个地方。

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