If you think that Americans have an image of what we stand for in the world and of what we do.

如果你认为美国人知道,自己在世界上象征了什么,知道自己在做什么。

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New thresholds, new anatomies", ; well, that's not such a hard concept; that's an image of what the modern promises for Crane, and indeed those Gothic arches of the bridge seem to emblematize for him.

新的开端，新的躯体“,这并不是太难的概念;,这就是对于克莱恩而言现实希望的肖像，实际也是，布鲁克林桥上那些哥特式的拱门与他而言的象征。

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Now, this particular simile conjures for us an image of someone trying to get a fix on Satan's shield, and there's the suggestion here of an attempt to get a proper perspective on this huge character, Satan.

这个特别的比喻如同戏法般,像我们展示了一个想要对撒旦的屏障有所一瞥的形象，这里有找出对这个重要的人物，撒旦,的一个合理的观点的暗示。

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And just as in that earlier poem the act of fishing is symbolically resonant "The Fisherman" is an image of man searching the depths of the world for the wisdom that hides beneath the surface of things.

和以前的事一样,也是有象征意味的,渔夫是一个探索世界的深邃,和隐藏在事物表面下的智慧,的一个人物形象。

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