Just this watery mass again. So it's creation undoing itself in some of the descriptions, as opposed to just heavy rain.

又变成了一个大水球,这里是自我毁灭，而不是毁于倾盆大雨。

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It illustrates Satan's self-destruction even as the main narrative of the simile portrays Satan's heroism.

这个故事讲述了撒旦的自我毁灭,尽管它也描述了撒旦的英雄主义。

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That he who lets go of what is done for what should be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation."

放弃已完成,之应该完成事务的人,体认到的是自我毁灭而非延续“

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The women represent for Yeats a kind of self-destructive energy, and it's something he too, I think, is willing to share and enter into.

这些女人对叶芝而言代表了,一种自我毁灭的能量,这是他愿意分享参与的。

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Embedded within the explicit plot of the simile is a secret, a kind of buried narrative, and it's a hidden story that illustrates Satan's self-destruction.

深藏在这个比喻精巧的情节布局里的，是一个秘密，一个被深埋已久的故事，一个隐藏着的，阐述了撒旦自我毁灭的故事。

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