When you start describing the significance of a symbol like the tunnel, which recurs in the book, you immediately begin to limit it, and a symbol should go on deepening.

当你开始描述一个象征的意义,比如说在书中，反复出现的隧道，当你一开始予以限制，这个象征就会继续深化。

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Sometime it will just stop in the middle of a tunnel for however long.

有时候，地铁会久久地停在隧道的中间。

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When the body is in stress, we have various unusual stimulations of the visual sections of the brain, and perhaps that explains the white light or the feeling of compression in the tunnel.

身体受压时,我们收到对大脑视觉区域,各种不同寻常的的刺激,也许这可以解释白光,或者在隧道里压抑的感觉

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It's known to Americans who have visited, there are many, but others because that's the Ritz Hotel where what's-her-name, Princess Diana left ten years ago now and never made it, unfortunately for her, out of the Pont d'Alma, the tunnel.

去过巴黎的美国人都知道那个地方,很多人知道旺多姆广场是因为丽兹酒店,十年前逝世的黛安娜王妃曾下榻的酒店,真是不幸,她在穿过蓬德阿尔马隧道时出了意外

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This weird temporal disjunction is an important part of the poem, and it not only gives the poem its peculiar air of something like a conceptual time-warp, but it's an important part of Milton's profoundly anticipatory imagination.

这个古怪的暂时的脱节是诗歌中很重要的一部分，它不仅带给诗歌一种不寻常的感觉,就像概念性的时光隧道，但他确实是弥尔顿,深奥的预言性想象的重要部分。

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Perhaps at the other end of the tunnel they begin to have some communications or see some loved one who has died previously or perhaps some famous religious person in their-- in the teaching of their tradition-- their religious tradition.

或许在隧道的另一头,他们开始某种交流,或者看见早已死去的挚爱亲友,看见他们传统教义中,或宗教传统中的,某个著名宗教人物

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Eventually, perhaps, they leave the operating room altogether in this experience that they're having, and they have a feeling of joy and euphoria; they have some experience of going through a tunnel, seeing some light at the end of the tunnel.

最终,或许,在这些例子中他们都会体验到自己离开,当时的手术室,并感到愉悦和欣喜,他们会有某种穿越隧道,并在隧道尽头看见一些亮光的体验

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