Okay. That's one way to read the simile, one way to make sense of this mention of the X, the Galileo figure.

这是理解这个比喻的一种方式，一种了解X，即伽利略的形象的方式。

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And so it would seem to be Dante's use of the image that has a primary influence here on Milton, but, as we might expect, there is a complication in the way that Milton uses this particular image.

因此但丁对这个比喻的应用,对弥尔顿有最深刻的影响，但是，如我们期待的，这里弥尔顿在运用,这个特别的比喻的方式上，有一点复杂。

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