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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or to know how to, you know, put a man on the moon, but I think,

或如何把人类送上月球，但是我认为

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That kind of makes sense, but there's more, of course, here than the moon to describe Satan's shield.

这能说得通了，但是除此之外，还有比月亮更适合的类比撒旦的屏障的东西。

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The question of providential justice is of course of primary significance to Milton's poem, but Hartman goes on to say that the moon, which reminds us of a calm and perfect sense of Providence, also works to guarantee the principal of free will.

这里，关于天佑的公平的问题,是其对于弥尔顿的诗最基本的重要性，但是哈特曼接着又说月亮是，这提醒了我们天意的冷静和完美感，月亮在这儿也是为了保障自由意志的原则。

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It was Galileo's job, you'll remember, with his telescope to detect the otherwise undetectable spots and imperfections in this seemingly, but only seemingly, perfect moon.

你们还记得，通过望远镜，观测到这个看起来，却只是看起来完美无缺的,月亮上的黑点和缺陷，是伽利略要做的。

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