If there is atmosphere in the passage I'm about to quote from Macbeth, it must be atmosphere of a certain kind and there for a certain reason.

如果下面这篇《麦克白》里的选段有所谓的“气氛“,那这种气氛一定因为某种原因以某种形式存在着。

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So this is like your children's book representation of the Christian God, and there it is as a blinding white cloud. You wouldn't even need the curls and the beard if you just had the blinding and the white.

这就像你们儿童书里上帝的代表，它就像一朵亮白的云，你甚至不需要,卷曲状和胡须状的图像，即使你只看的，亮白。

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