So in this context, the river of oblivion serves an obvious purpose in the context we have here in Book Two.

故在这部分文本中，遗忘之河便是为了遗忘而存在的,在第二册书正是这样体现的。

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This is page 238 of the Hughes, Book Two, line 249.

力士参孙》的第238页，第二册，第249行。

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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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This is in Book Two, line 249.

第二册书，第249行。

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This is line 582 of Book Two.

在第二册书的582行。

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