To speak both of Jove and of Christ is obviously in some ways to mix your metaphors and the effect can only be disorienting.

同时提到丘比特和救世主在某种方式上,很明显使人们对暗喻和其所起的作用感到迷惑。

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What could possibly be more presumptuous than the association of the beginning of one's own career, one's own literary career, with the birth of the Christian messiah?

还有什么能够比,把自己事业的开端，自己的文学生涯，与基督教救世主的诞生相提并论更胆大妄为的？

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Nuclear power, for example, may be our salvation when we run out of oil--or virtually run out of oil-- it seems to be coming up over the next several decades-- we're going to have to do that, we're going to need nuclear power.

比如说核能,在石油资源枯竭,或快要枯竭的时候,也许再过几十年,这一天就会来临,核能可能成为我们的救世主,那时我们就需要核能源了

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