In a sense it is an image ofthe English countryside at a moment in which it is being emptied out, its young men sent to France to die, a kind of no man's land already.
某种意义上它是英国乡村的写照，在一个被清空的时刻，年轻的男人被送到法国受死，已经是没有人的土地。
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Themen were staged outside the tent, as the marines’ officers were waiting for the just right moment to make a conspicuous display of goodwill.