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词汇 by my troth i care not
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by my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death . . . and let it go which way it will he that died this year is quit the next. British Captain E. E. Dorman-Smith, later a general, wrote these words out for Ernest Hemingway in the Italian hospital where he was recovering from his wounds during World War I. Hemingway later put the words into the mouth of the white hunter Robert Wilson in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” There Wilson com- ments upon the little-known phrase: “Worst one can do is kill you. How does it go? Shakespeare. Damned good. See if I can remember. Oh, damned good. Used to quote it to myself at one time. Let’s see . . . Damned fine, eh?” The words are origi- nally from Shakespeare’s Henry IV. In his anthology Men at War (1942) Hemingway wrote that they had become “a per- manent talisman” for him.
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