Well, the answer is, in the traditional view, is that he was never meant to stand by himself.

答案在于,在传统观点看来,就是一个士兵从不孤军奋战

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Now Spenser's hero in Book Two of the Faerie Queene is Sir Guyon, and Sir Guyon descends into Mammon's Cave - it's a Spenserian underworld - and it's in Mammon's Cave that he is tempted by the money god himself.

斯潘塞在《仙后》第二册中的英雄是盖恩先生，盖恩下到贪欲之神的洞穴中,这是斯潘塞笔下的地狱,就在贪欲之神的洞穴盖恩被贪欲之神诱惑了。

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He is not a creature off by himself.

他不可能只靠自己活下去

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In other words, he no longer can think straight and so he will do something dangerous,harmful, and very ultimately bad for himself,and when he does whatever it is, he is struck by Nemesis,the goddess of retribution.

换句话说,他已经不能理性思考,他会对自己做出危险,有害,甚至及其恶劣的事,无论他做了什么坏事,最终会被惩戒女神尼弥西斯制裁

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