||A certain ambiguity marked Wynne Godley. Was he at heart an aesthete, happiest making music in beautiful buildings among works of art? Or was he more naturally one of the sophisters, economists and calculators whose rise marked, for Edmund Burke, the passing of the age of chivalry? ||2:Was he by temperament a dissenter? Or just a typical scion of the British upper classes, an establishment man who played at being a rebel? ||3:Was he a determined pessimist, who took some pleasure in his reputation as the Cassandra of the Fens ?||4: Or a convivial, witty friend, who entertained with style and had a taste for gambling? ||5:Was he a shy violet, trembling before an audience? Or a controversialist who was hardly publicity-averse?
They will gripe at the grandiloquence of a project so vast as to make the drainage of the Fens resemble emptying a paddling pool.
他们会抱怨称，这个项目的豪言壮语太过夸张，仿佛抽干这些海水就像排空一个戏水池一样。
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Was he a determined pessimist, who took some pleasure in his reputation as the Cassandra of the Fens ?
他是一位像卡桑德拉沼泽一样，对自身名气有几分自怜的彻底悲观主义者呢？
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the Fens
英国剑桥郡附近的低地
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karst fens
喀斯特沼泽
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1.A low and marshy or frequently flooded area of land.
‘a native species of fens and damp meadows’
‘55 acres of fen’
2.A monetary unit of China, equal to one hundredth of a yuan.
‘If it were not one yuan but one fen, would the press still have made a mountain out of it?’
‘Meanwhile, the company, China's biggest ethylene producer, saw its net profit leap more than fivefold to 1.03 billion yuan, or 31 fen per share, in the first half on rising sales.’
3.The flat low-lying areas of eastern England, mainly in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk, formerly marshland but largely drained for agriculture since the 17th century.
4.Wetland with alkaline, neutral, or only slightly acid peaty soil.
‘Site-specific features of the hydroperiod and geochemistry of the waters influencing the site will determine the specific type of peatland that will develop from the mineral wetland, be it swamp, fen or bog.’
‘The nest was located at the edge of a small open pool surrounded by cattails adjacent to a sedge and sphagnum-dominated lakeside fen.’
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‘a native species of fens and damp meadows’
