In fact, this poem's power lies, I think, in its -not only its inability but its unwillingness to specify the content of that revelation.

实际上我觉得这首诗的力量，我想，在于,它不着重写启示的内容,也不愿意去写,启示的内容。

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Well, "Home Burial" is a poem about the limits of work, the inability of the worker to bring a knowable world, a safe world, into being.

家冢“是他创作的极限之作，一个无能的工人让一个可知的世界，一个安全的世界存在。

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But you can imagine the inability to do that in a big population study with thousands and thousands of subjects, so we have to rely on data like this.

但你们可以想象在一个大样本研究中,不可能对数以千计的研究对象做这种培训,所以我们需要依靠像这样的数据

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And we pay a very high price for this inability, for this refusal to accept the fact that it is part of human nature that is constrained, that is there no matter what.

我们为这种无能付出高昂代价，为拒绝接受,本性受约束，生而有之的事实，付出高昂代价。

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Now, that's not a huge number but, obviously, when you're hoping to beat the market by a point or two losing by 0.3% per year because of your market timing inability is a bad thing.

看起来这不是个巨大的数字,明显地,当你希望获得,高于市场水平一到两个百分点的回报率,却由于抓不住市场时机而每年亏个0.3%,就很糟糕了

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So we have many candidates, So we have many candidates, more than just two; or we have not voting, which is related to that actually; and we have choosing your position, the inability to commit to a position.

有多位候选人,实际情况下候选人不只有两个,存在弃权票,这也是很正常的,还有就是候选人,未必能够坚守他的立场

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But in fact, in his own way, he's talking about his inability ; to keep his child alive there; in a kind of metaphorical way, speaking of his failure to build a fence to last.

但事实上，以他自己的方式，他在诉说自己的无能,不能让孩子活下来;,以一种象征性的方式，谈论自己不能制作出一个一直在那的栅栏。

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