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It's an underworld filled with gold that a brigade of fallen angels begins to extract with spades and pick axes.
在这个地狱一群堕落天使们可以拿着铲子和锤子,挖取地下的金矿。
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They're prostrate on the burning lake of this miserable new realm called hell, yet nonetheless Satan pulls himself together and begins to analyze, to theorize, his situation.
他们匍匐在这个痛苦的被叫做地狱的国度,身边是燃烧的湖水，然而撒旦还是振作了起来,开始分析思考他的处境。
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And then he goes back to hell and then back up to heaven -goes back and forth between these two rhythmically very different concepts.
然后它回到了地狱,接着又升到了天堂,在这两种节奏非常不同的概念之间,来回往复
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Some cultures have you going to Heaven or descending to Hell.
在一些文化中,你会上天堂或是下地狱
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Such is her power. But we have every right to ask what Medusa - this is a figure from Greek mythology - what Medusa is doing in a Christian hell.
她有那样的力量，但我们有权问问美杜莎,这一希腊神话里的人物,在基督教的地狱里做什么。
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Virgil alludes to just this passage in Homer when he describes the entrance of a whole crowd of people in to the underworld as "the falling of leaves in the early frost of autumn."
维吉尔只是在荷马中影射了这点,他描述了通往人群拥挤的地狱的入口,如同“在深秋严寒中无情飘落的叶子“
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It's a river that, I think, all classical writers, and a lot of Renaissance writers, are very comfortable placing in the underworld.
我认为对于所有的经典作家，和很多文艺复兴时期的作家，忘川在地狱中都是一个舒适的所在。
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For a moment at least, it's almost as if there were a strange moral equivalence between the palaces up there and the palaces down here.
至少在一瞬间，在天堂的宫殿与地狱的宫殿之间,存在着一种奇怪的道德上的平等。
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When Milton instructs his muse, "Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view," there's something more here than the primary sense of the word, which is just "first in sequence."
弥尔顿写到缪斯的时候，“请先说，天界和地狱深渊在您的眼中，一切都了如指掌“,这句中“先“除了它本身的意思“最先“之外，还有其他的含义“
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It also provides Milton with the figure of Mammon who will, as you will see over the course of this semester become - well, here in Paradise Lost he's one of the key fallen angels in Milton's hell.
它也为弥尔顿提供了贪欲之神这一形象，正如在本学期这一门课中你们将始终看到的，贪欲之神,在《失乐园》中会变成,弥尔顿地狱中主要的堕落天使之一。
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They're not actually present in the real world of Milton's hell, or if it's a pagan god who's mentioned, Milton will tell us that the pagan god was just an early manifestation of one of the fallen angels.
事实上他们没有在弥尔顿笔下的地狱中出现，或者作为异教的神被提及，弥尔顿将告诉我们那些异教的神只是堕落天使中,一名天使早期的表象。
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So let's listen to Mozart's depiction of hell and heaven here.
那么,让我们来听下莫扎特,在这里对地狱和天堂的描述吧
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They are individual creatures who seem really to be in hell just as they seem really to have been in heaven; but the figures of Sin and Death, they are entirely different animals.
他们是独立的生灵，身处于地狱,也曾经生活在天堂;,但是罪恶之神和死神却是两个完全不同的生物。
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They've been clearly been hurled into hell by a Judeo-Christian deity. So this little moment, this Medusa moment, we can call it, is really quite strange.
他们被犹太教和基督教共同的上帝扔进地狱,所以在这一时刻，我们可以说美杜莎的出现是十分奇怪的。
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Finally, Dante alludes to this image of the Virgilian underworld in The Inferno when he describes the descent of humanity, the evil seed of Adam, into the Christian hell.
最后，但丁又在中描述到人性的败坏,亚当在基督教的地狱中撒下的邪恶种子时，含沙射影了维吉尔关于地狱的描写。
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This is Mammon's speech during the great consult in hell.
这是贪神在地狱里大听证会里发表的演讲。
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Milton wants the reader to know that she's fallen, we are all fallen, and any problem that we have in understanding the theology of heaven and hell is our problem as fallen readers.
弥尔顿希望读者认识到她在堕落，我们也在堕落，以及我们在理解天堂中遇到的任何问题,以及地狱式我们这些堕落了的读者们的心魔。
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Now Spenser's hero in Book Two of the Faerie Queene is Sir Guyon, and Sir Guyon descends into Mammon's Cave - it's a Spenserian underworld - and it's in Mammon's Cave that he is tempted by the money god himself.
斯潘塞在《仙后》第二册中的英雄是盖恩先生，盖恩下到贪欲之神的洞穴中,这是斯潘塞笔下的地狱,就在贪欲之神的洞穴盖恩被贪欲之神诱惑了。
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in his great depiction of hell in Books One and Two) to avoid the standard epic scenes of the torture of the damned, for example, with which we're familiar if we've read Homer or Virgil or, of course, Dante much later.
在他第一和第二册书对地狱的精彩描述）,去避免提及传统史诗中关于恶者被折磨的场景，例如我们所熟悉的那些场景,如果我们读过荷马的，维吉尔的，当然还有但丁的作品。
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One of these little details that Milton has lifted rather directly is that of the river Lethe, the river of oblivion that was believed to flow in the underworld.
其中弥尔顿直接盗用的一个小细节,是遗忘之河，即忘川,忘川被认为在地狱流淌。
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Now for my money, it's Belial who gives us the most beautiful and the most seductive contribution to the debate in hell, but it has got to be Mammon who most resembles Milton himself.
我敢打赌，是贝利亚给了我们在那场地狱的辩论中,最美的和最有魅力的演说，但是这份殊荣,给了最像弥尔顿他自己的贪神。
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