The simile isn't telling us that Satan's spear is as small as a wand because what we have is a syllogism here.

这个比喻并不是在提醒我们撒旦的长矛像棍子一样小,因为我们在这儿有一个演绎推理。

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And so we adjust our minds to accommodate -because presumably we weren't imagining Satan to be that big -to accommodate this sense of Satan's tremendous physical magnitude.

我们调整了自己的思维来适应这个,-因为我们之前并未设想他的长矛有那么大,-来适应撒旦如此高大的想法。

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But regardless of Milton's ultimate dismissal of Satan's position, Satan's analysis of power, and of God's power especially, isn't that easily dismissible.

尽管最后弥尔顿驳回了撒旦的言论，但是撒旦对力量的分析，尤其是对上帝力量的分析，是不能这么轻易驳回的。

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He quickly complicates our identification of Orion with Satan, which wasn't arrived at that easily to begin with.

他迅速地把猎户的形象和撒旦混在一起，这并不是简单就能应付得来的。

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