We have already seen a moon in Book One.

我们已经在卷一中看到了月亮了。

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Now you may remember what Geoffrey Hartman had argued that the moon represents the power of divine providence, and there's a lot of ways in which this reading makes sense.

你们可能还记得哈特曼曾经争论过,月亮代表的是神圣的天命的力量，有很多理解这段的方式都是有意义的。

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There's some religious practices of blessing the moon, and certainly in June, summer camps, you often pray outside.

有一些宗教仪式,是专门祭拜月亮的，在六月的夏令营，我们也会在户外祈祷。

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Here, a neighbor father, crazed with grief at the death of his son, has drowned himself, killed himself, and the moon implies in its gaze that the poet should do so, too.

这里，一个邻居父亲，因儿子之死悲痛发狂，溺死自己，杀死自己，月亮在凝视中隐含,诗人也应该这么做。

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The simile is there ostensibly to compare Satan with the great sea beast, leviathan. In the comparison of Satan's shield with the moon is the figure of the Tuscan artist, the Tuscan artist being Galileo.

这个明喻很明显是将撒旦和凶猛的海中野兽利维坦，进行了对比，在把撒旦的庇护和月亮的比较之中,突出了那个托斯卡纳艺术家的形象，伽利略。

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So, Galileo here is struggling to get the proper visionary fix on the moon at a point in the day when there are no absolutes.

因此，伽利略在此是试图着要在没有绝对的时刻,得到月亮的方位。

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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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