He says in the middle of the poem on page 225: First there's the children's house of make-believe, Some shattered dishes underneath a pine, The playthings in the playhouse of the children.

他在225页这首诗的中间说到：,首先是假扮的孩子们的房间，松树下的一碟碟食物，那些玩具室里孩子们的玩具。

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Satan's spear is to the tallest pine what the tallest pine is to a little, bitty wand.

撒旦的长矛对于最高的松木而言就如同最高的松木,对比一根小小的棍子一般大。

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Just as soon as we crowded our imagination already with the image of the spear the size of a Norwegian pine, which took a certain imaginative leap on our parts, we realize that Satan and his spear are immeasurably larger even than that.

我们已经对于,那棵已然吸引了我们大量注意力的挪威松木，及和之相比的长矛的大小浮想联翩了，我们意识到撒旦和他的长矛甚至比松木还要广大无边。

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