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prest = pressed
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paraphrase:
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解读：
$ ^2 l5 f% W, y& \: c, CThe best of humanity is likened to a good wine Vintage; their lives are likened to drinking a cup of wine before they creep off to Rest (die).
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FitzGerald’s phrase “some we loved, the loveliest and the best” recalls the poignant events surrounding the composer Berlioz and the re-burial of his two wives.
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The two dead women lie there now in peace, awaiting the time when I shall bring my own share of corruption to the same charnel-house.* A) u7 E6 @8 G4 p. j
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I am in my sixty-first year; past hopes, past illusions, past high thoughts and lofty conceptions. My son is almost always far away from me. I am alone. My contempt for the folly and baseness of mankind, my hatred of its atrocious cruelty, have never been so intense. And I say hourly to Death: ‘When you will.’ Why does he delay?”
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carpe diem! 我们永远不知道明天和泥头车谁先到来。
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参考：
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