And Mars has this sort of human, flabby torso that's not-- it's sympathetic, but it's a different portrayal of war.

马尔斯看起来像一个普通人,略微虚胖,这一点让人同情,但这是对战争的不同描写

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He has this whole group of people out somewhere on the American frontier and they're a kind of a cult.

他描写了来自于美国边界某处的一群人,他们是一群狂热分子

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How many people can we imagine who might fit that description?

这个描写能够让你脑中想起多少的人？

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Now, why the Fat Lady? It's this mythical, incredibly humanly embodied-- whenever you see a fat lady in a novel, one of the first things you want to ask is: why does that person need to be excessively embodied?

现在，为什么是胖太太，这是个神话，人们呈现了，无论你什么时候看到一个胖太太,在小说里，你首先会想问：,为什么那个人需要被这样过多的描写呢？

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So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

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