It was like the day -- a hundred years later -- when the first American walked on the moon.

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Like the moon, Satan may look beautiful, but upon a closer scrutiny that beauty begins to yield certain metaphysical flaws.

像月亮那样，撒旦看起来非常美好，但是近看,就会发现这份美丽开始显露出一些抽象的瑕疵。

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It's a much more elaborate simile than that: "the broad circumference / hung on his shoulders like the Moon whose Orb / through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views.

这是一个更为精细的比喻：,“那个阔大的圆形物/好像一轮挂在他双肩的明月“,/就是那个托斯卡纳的大师“

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