It is also called the City of Angels because Los Angeles means "the angels" in Spanish.
VOA: special.2010.01.03
For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.
为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说,这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。
It was one thing for the Lady to imagine -- you know, crazy as it was, for the Lady to imagine -- a rescue squad of angels to zip to her aid at the first hint of a physical assault.
这是一件令小姐想象的事,你可以看出,让小姐去想象很疯狂,一个天使救援队会在她做出第一个被侵犯暗示的时候去救她。
In two thousand ten she published a book on ballet called "Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet."
VOA: special.2011.01.26
Satan's described initially here as the wind god Orion, a classical figure who vexed or tossed the waves of the Red Sea, ; just as Satan is rousing and inspiring his fallen host of angels; but Milton continues to complicate the simile.
撒旦在这里最初被比作风神猎户,这是一个在红海上呼风唤浪的古典形象,就像撒旦在他的天使随从面前充满了威严;,但是弥尔顿接下来又使这个比喻复杂化了。
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
VOA: special.2009.01.19
They've been humiliated by the Son of God and the other priggish loyalist angels so they are pained, utterly humiliated.
他们被上帝之子和其他,一本正经忠于上帝的天使们羞辱,他们备受羞辱,痛不欲生。
They have a substantial reality within the fictional context, the mimetic context, of this epic. These are angels.
他们在这篇史诗虚构的模仿得来的,内容中具有极大的现实意义,他们是天使。
Milton's been noting that some of the pagan deities that the fallen angels eventually became were male and some were female.
堕落天使化身成的异端神灵,有男有女,弥尔顿本无须说明。
But the most central act of eating, of course, in Milton's great epic obviously has nothing to do with angels.
但最重要的吃的行为当然,弥尔顿最伟大的叙事诗显然和天使无关。
It's an underworld filled with gold that a brigade of fallen angels begins to extract with spades and pick axes.
在这个地狱一群堕落天使们可以拿着铲子和锤子,挖取地下的金矿。
Clearly, it's evil in all sorts of ways. This is the fallen institution established by the fallen angels -- but it's more complicated than that.
很明显,它在各方面都很邪恶,这些是由堕落天使建立,的堕落机构,但还要更复杂。
But despite this enormous concession and this realization, Satan is still justified, I think, in his cynical demystification of God's behavior before the defeat of the rebel angels.
尽管后来做出了如此重大的妥协和转变,但我认为撒旦在叛乱天使战败前对上帝行为,冷嘲热讽的行为还是有其道理的。
Then we have the simile of the fallen leaves, which compares the fallen angels to fallen leaves, and in that simile we have the image of the Israelites.
然后我们又看到落叶的明喻,在这里作者将堕落的天使比作了落叶,并且我们在这里又看到了以色列人的形象。
To drink from this river would allow the fallen angels to forget their fallen state, to forget the fact of their fallen-ness from their more blissful former condition.
喝忘川之水让那些堕落天使,忘记他们的堕落的处境,忘记自己堕落这一现实,忘记自己是从幸福天堂堕落的事实。
Now, the purpose of this simile is to evince the indistinctness and the confusion produced by our vision of the fallen angels.
这个比喻的目的,是要表明由我们想象的天使们的样子,带来的模糊和困惑。
Satan and the fallen angels are entering the magnificent structureof Pandemonium, and at one instant all of the angels shrink in order to fit in to the building, however big it is.
撒旦和堕落天使们正在进入,混战地狱绝妙的建筑中去,突然,所有的天使们都缩小了身形,以来进入那栋建筑中。
We can only imagine the fallen angels with a kind of dim uncertainty just as the belated peasant sees, or perhaps he only dreams he sees, the dance of fairy elves by a forest side.
我们只能想象出堕落的天使们带着暗淡的变幻的光,正如他见到的,又或者是他梦见的,林边跳舞的精灵们。
It also provides Milton with the figure of Mammon who will, as you will see over the course of this semester become - well, here in Paradise Lost he's one of the key fallen angels in Milton's hell.
它也为弥尔顿提供了贪欲之神这一形象,正如在本学期这一门课中你们将始终看到的,贪欲之神,在《失乐园》中会变成,弥尔顿地狱中主要的堕落天使之一。
It's not until Book Three, until after Milton presents his heroic portrait of Satan and his heroic portrait of the fallen angels when he establishes the fact of his blindness.
直到第三卷弥尔顿呈现,他对撒旦和降落的天使们的英勇形象后,他才证实自己失明的事实。
There's a small group of writers whose work is pure, uncontaminated, sexless as the angels are said to be sexless and Milton is their leader .
有这样一小群作家,他们的作品,是纯洁的,无暇的,如天使般丝毫不辨性别 ,而米尔顿便是他们的首领。
The Elder Brother is explaining that these angels will: Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal.
大哥解释说,这些天使将会:,在身体上投射光束,在心里未受污染的殿堂上投射光束,把它变回灵魂的本质,直到全部人都变成不朽的人。
They're not actually present in the real world of Milton's hell, or if it's a pagan god who's mentioned, Milton will tell us that the pagan god was just an early manifestation of one of the fallen angels.
事实上他们没有在弥尔顿笔下的地狱中出现,或者作为异教的神被提及,弥尔顿将告诉我们那些异教的神只是堕落天使中,一名天使早期的表象。
The subject of the debate has been the nature of the fallen angels' political future: essentially, the question is where do we go from here? Moloch, you'll remember, is the military general who will risk absolutely anything for revenge.
辩论的主题是,堕落天使政治前途的本来面目:,关键问题在于,我们从这里要走向何方?,你们记得莫洛克吧,他是一位将军,愿不惜一切代价复仇。
It's a fantasy, of course, because no such brainwashing is going to be possible, just as the fallen angels - if you look at line 607 - will be barred from drinking their fill of the river Lethe, forgetfulness is impossible.
当然这是一次幻想,因为这种洗脑,根本就不可能实现,就如同那些堕落天使一般,如果看第607行7,他们被禁止喝忘川之水,遗忘是不可能的。
Mulciber fell long before Homer because Mulciber fell long before the creation of the earth -- and it's Milton, and it's no other poet before Milton, who's finally able to set the record straight. Milton's insisting here that all of the pagan deities had originally been fallen angels.
莫西伯在荷马出世前就堕落了因为,他早在大地被创造前就堕落了,是弥尔顿,在弥尔顿之前没有别的诗人,能够最终印证这个记录,弥尔顿在这里坚持的是,所有异教神原本都是堕落天使。
You'll want to think about why Milton seems so aggressively to invite the association of the failure of the just revolution of the Puritans, and of course that's how he would see it, with the failure of the unjust revolution of the rebel angels under the guidance of Satan.
弥尔顿如此迫切的将清教徒的正义革命之失败,与我们所认为的撒旦领导下的叛乱天使们的,非正义革命之失败联系在一起,我们会疑惑他为什么要这样做。
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