"The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath;

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This is an underworld, of course, but there seems to be another underworld resting just beneath it.

当然这是地狱，但是这里它似乎,变成了地狱下方的另一个地狱。

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Is it the hero of the story bent on remaining ignorant of the castrato hidden beneath the woman?

是不是故事的主人公还没有意识到,这个歌手其实是男人？

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If he is beneath the polis it means he's beneath what it is to a human being, and that tells you just how potent is this concept of a community for the Greeks and it emerges in its own way from the Iliad and the Odyssey.

反过来,如果一个卑微到无法进入城邦的人,那也就意味着他作为人的意义同样卑微,由此可见,集体的概念,是多么的深入希腊人的心中,在《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中,便揭示了这一点

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