Leda feels the beating of the swan's heart, and that heart is "strange" to her, that simple, powerful word.

丽达感受到天鹅的心跳，而那心跳对她来说很陌生，陌生，是个简单给力的词。

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The myth that Yeats takes up is of Zeus's rape of the maiden, Leda, whom he attacks as a swan.

叶芝此诗的神话原型是,宙斯强暴了一个美女，丽达，宙斯变成天鹅侵犯了她。

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They're more like propositions, like speculations, that we're asked to test through empathic identification with, in this case, the poem's subject, Leda.

它们更像观点，像推测，而不是问题，叶芝问这些问题,以同情的口吻关注着，此诗的主题，丽达。

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Well, Con Markievicz is, in a sense, a figure like Leda. She is someone who has suffered the traumatic violence that engenders history.

马克维其从某种程度上说，是个像丽达的人物,她所遭受的痛苦的暴力,书写了历史。

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Remember how Yeats represents history as rape in "Leda and the Swan."

记住叶芝在丽达与天鹅里,把历史表述成强奸“

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I think of it as a kind of reply to that famous question in "Leda and the Swan"; that is, "did she put on his knowledge with his power before the indifferent beak could let her drop?"

这是对丽达和天鹅中那个,著名问题的回答，在那冷漠的嘴把她放下之前,她是否用她的力量获取了他的知识？

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Leda and the Swan" seems to say a knowledge of the body, of the necessity of embodiment. In the late Yeats, in the poems that I'll be discussing today, there's no knowledge apart from the body.

这诗里似乎说的是身体的知识，表现的必要性，我们要谈论的,叶芝的晚期诗讲的就是身体。

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Again, think of the rape of Leda.

想象丽达一诗中，强奸。

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