Part III

INTO THE FIRE
Beauty is that Medusa’s headWhich men go armed to seek and sever¹.
It is most deadly when most dead,And dead will stare and sting forever.
—Archibald MacLeish, “Beauty”

1 sever   

v.切开，割开；断绝，中断

参考例句：

• She wanted to sever all her connections with the firm.她想断绝和那家公司的所有联系。
• We must never sever the cultural vein of our nation.我们不能割断民族的文化血脉。