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The Lost Legions
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One day, we believe, a great book will be written, informed by the breath which moves the Spirits of Pity in Mr Hardy1's Dynasts. It will be a delicate, yet undeviating record of the spiritual awareness2 of the generation that perished in the war. It will be a work of genius, for the essence that must be captured within it is volatile3 beyond belief, almost beyond imagination. We know of its existence by signs hardly more material than a dream-memory of beating wings or an instinctive4, yet all but inexplicable5 refusal of that which has been offered us in its stead. The autobiographer-novelists have been legion, yet we turn from them all with a slow shake of the head. 'No, it was not that. Had we lost only that we could have forgotten. It was not that.'
No, it was the spirit that troubled, as in dream, the waters of the pool, some influence which trembled between silence and a sound, a precarious6 confidence, an unavowed quest, a wisdom that came not of years or experience, a dissatisfaction, a doubt, a devotion, some strange presentiment7, it may have been, of the bitter years in store, in memory an ineffable8, irrevocable beauty, a visible seal on the forehead of a generation.
'When the lamp is shattered.
The light in the dust lies dead—
When the cloud is scattered9
The rainbow's glory is shed.
When the lute10 is broken,
Sweet tones are remembered not…'
Yet out of a thousand fragments this memory must be created anew in a form that will
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     hardy   | |
| adj.勇敢的,果断的,吃苦的;耐寒的 | |
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     awareness   | |
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     volatile   | |
| adj.反复无常的,挥发性的,稍纵即逝的,脾气火爆的;n.挥发性物质 | |
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     instinctive   | |
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     inexplicable   | |
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     precarious   | |
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     lute   | |
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     outlast   | |
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     vindicate   | |
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     epoch   | |
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     sterility   | |
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     paradox   | |
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     remains   | |
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     cynical   | |
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     portray   | |
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     conceited   | |
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     manifestations   | |
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     complexity   | |
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     flickering   | |
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     hovers   | |
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     pious   | |
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     withdrawn   | |
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     unity   | |
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     sentimental   | |
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     distraction   | |
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     mere   | |
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     remarkable   | |
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     passionate   | |
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     inevitable   | |
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     prelude   | |
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     idols   | |
| 偶像( idol的名词复数 ); 受崇拜的人或物; 受到热爱和崇拜的人或物; 神像 | |
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     penetrating   | |
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     apprehension   | |
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     throbbing   | |
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     prophesy   | |
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     simplicity   | |
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     elevation   | |
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     infinitely   | |
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     subtlety   | |
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     disillusion   | |
| vt.使不再抱幻想,使理想破灭 | |
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     purely   | |
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     supersession   | |
| 取代,废弃; 代谢 | |
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     sublime   | |
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     intoxication   | |
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     fleeting   | |
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     entirely   | |
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     innocence   | |
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     hypocrisy   | |
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     sloth   | |
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     appalling   | |
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     impudence   | |
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     bigotry   | |
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     renounce   | |
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     lumbering   | |
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     refinement   | |
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     patriots   | |
| 爱国者,爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 ) | |
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     cumulative   | |
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     torment   | |
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     sonnet   | |
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     obsessed   | |
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     condemns   | |
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     sect   | |
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     authentic   | |
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     satires   | |
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     incisive   | |
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     lyrics   | |
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     obtrude   | |
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     admiration   | |
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     liking   | |
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     mighty   | |
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     vicissitudes   | |
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