The mother’s fire gives this harrowing, inspiring film its glimpse of hell in the tear-stained face of a modern Medea, a woman wronged and damaged beyond redemption.

这位母亲的怒火让人在这部悲惨、动人电影中看到一脸辛酸的现代美狄亚形象——一个悔恨交织而无法得到救赎的女人。

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The mother's fire gives this harrowing, inspiring film its glimpse of hell in the tear-stained face of a modern Medea, a woman wronged and damaged beyond redemption.

这位母亲的怒火让人在这部悲惨、动人电影中看到一脸辛酸的现代美狄亚形象——一个悔恨交织而无法得到救赎的女人。

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But of course you can’t beat the Devil. The Devil threw himself in to the fire, which he is quite used to, being from Hell, and finally the handle of the hammer burned off and the Devil was free.

可是魔鬼是打不坏的, 他跳进了火里--这在他倒是件平常的事, 因为他来自地狱--终于, 锤子的把柄被烧掉, 魔鬼自由了。

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John Wilkes, of the Hell-Fire Club, faced a similar dilemma during the Gordon Riots of 1780, when an anti-Catholic demonstration in London escalated into an orgy of burning and looting.

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Lane Dean had never believed in Hell as a lake of fire or a loving God consigning folks to a burning lake of fire he knew in his heart this was not true.

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Riding the dark ocean in the pitch of night before all hell breaks loose, sending up a cloud of heavy black rain and fire, throwing heavy equipment into the icy water, casting men to their deaths at the bottom of the sea.

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