The moon was compared to Satan's shield, and Milton was preparing us then for this radically ambiguous status of this providential moon.

月亮在这里被比作撒旦的盾，弥尔顿准备着让我们了解到这个充满神意的月亮,所处的基本的暧昧不清的地位。

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Then we have the simile of the fallen leaves, which compares the fallen angels to fallen leaves, and in that simile we have the image of the Israelites.

然后我们又看到落叶的明喻，在这里作者将堕落的天使比作了落叶，并且我们在这里又看到了以色列人的形象。

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The poem identifies also cold and passion with dawn the moment of awakening, which is also a moment of coming into reality from dream and sleep.

诗歌还将黎明的寒冷与激情,比作一种觉醒时刻,从睡梦和幻想回到现实的时刻。

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That's the only known comparison of Charleston to Lima, Peru that I'm aware of.

那是我听过的唯一一个,将查尔斯顿比作秘鲁的利马的例子

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So, Salinger imagines that the literary art imitates that kind of voice, and in that way it is a sacred practice, a sacred art.

所以，Salinger将文学艺术,比作那种声音，在那种情况下,文学是一种神圣的做法，是神圣的艺术。

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So, you would say, well, that's another place where Homer got it right, except for the fact that we also know how chariots are used in warfare and the closest analogy, I think, is to think of chariots as tanks.

你们可能会说,好吧,荷马又说对了,除非我们也懂得如何在战争中使用战车,我认为最相近的类比是把战车比作坦克

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I think here that the particular image of a career as a race still holds but with a little bit of a difference.

我认为这里把职业比作竞赛的独特设想,仍然成立，但是又略微的有所不同。

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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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Milton compares it to the mast of a ship.

弥尔顿把它比作船上的桅杆。

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Satan's described initially here as the wind god Orion, a classical figure who vexed or tossed the waves of the Red Sea, ; just as Satan is rousing and inspiring his fallen host of angels; but Milton continues to complicate the simile.

撒旦在这里最初被比作风神猎户，这是一个在红海上呼风唤浪的古典形象，就像撒旦在他的天使随从面前充满了威严;,但是弥尔顿接下来又使这个比喻复杂化了。

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He likened Charleston, South Carolina though this was in the 1780s he likened Charleston, South Carolina to what he called, quote, "The barbarous institutions and traits, especially slavery, the self-indulgence of the planters" and then he concludes "Just like Lima, Peru."

他把南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿比作,那是在十八世纪八十年代,他把南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿比作,"野蛮的制度和习性,尤其是奴隶制,种植园主们醉生梦死,自我放纵",然后他总结道,"就像秘鲁的利马一样"

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