The simile is there ostensibly to compare Satan with the great sea beast, leviathan. In the comparison of Satan's shield with the moon is the figure of the Tuscan artist, the Tuscan artist being Galileo.

这个明喻很明显是将撒旦和凶猛的海中野兽利维坦，进行了对比，在把撒旦的庇护和月亮的比较之中,突出了那个托斯卡纳艺术家的形象，伽利略。

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I was sheltered all those years, and then when I went to public school,

这么多年以来，我一直都被庇护着，而我接着去了公立学校，

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Okay. First of all, let's look at the simile that compares Satan's shield to the moon.

首先，我们来看看这些将,撒旦的庇护地比作了月亮的明喻。

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You've got people from the outskirts coming in for food and safety; but, the population is slightly over two million people, and that's a lot of mouths to feed.

人们从郊区前往城市寻求食物和庇护,然而人口数量很快突破了二百万,人人都在等米下锅

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It is a trading post and it's there by permission of and under the protection of the King of Egypt, and that's because he wants--it's handy for him to have a merchant settlement of Greeks for him to do business with.

这里是个通商驿站,而且获得了,埃及法老的许可和庇护,因为他认为,与希腊商人通商交易,为他提供了一些便利

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Like Fish, Hartman is most interested in the similes of the first two books, the similes that provide some kind of window onto the world of Satan, and he focuses on the simile actually ; that follows the simile of Satan's shield that we've been looking at; it follows the simile of the spear that Fish had analyzed.

和费什一样，哈特曼对于,前两本书里的那些比喻，那些提供了，一种窥视撒旦的世界的途径的比喻最感兴趣，他集中研究了那些实际上,和我们在理解的撒旦的庇护有所关联的比喻;,这个比喻紧随着费什已经分析过的长矛的比喻。

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