He's the charlatan preacher. We're certainly not meant to identify with him or to sympathize with him, but here you can't help but thinking about someone getting their thumb smashed in a door.

他是虚伪的传教士，我们当然不打算要支持或,同情他，但是读到这儿你禁不住要去,想，某人的大拇指被猛然关上的门夹住的场景。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As a virginal orator, should she choose to unleash her powers, she would have the power of an Orpheus moving dumb things to sympathize -- Orpheus being one of Milton's most prized mythological figures of the powerful poet.

作为一名处女演说家，如果她选择释放自己的力量，她应该会有像俄耳甫斯一样的力量,使哑的东西也受到感动而有同情心,俄耳甫斯是弥尔顿最为称赞的有权利的神话传说诗人。

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