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 with his optic glass, his telescope, Galileo was able to discern spots on the orb of the moon.

因此通过他的磁光玻璃，望远镜，伽利略能够分辨出月亮轨道上的斑点。

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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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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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Well, I'm going to write on the board, "shield equals moon," and you can schematize it with, let's say, "A equals A'." A'?

我会在黑板上写下“屏障和月亮一般大“,你们可以在脑海里概括一下，“两者相等“？

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Not just that, but the moral certainties that may have seemed distinct when we contrasted the ethereal heaven with the spotty and the imperfect nature of Satan and of the moon -those, too begin to seem fairly hazy.

不仅如此，其中看起来有所不同的,当我们对比天堂和撒旦与月亮的不完美时,其中道德的确定性,-那些令人模糊朦胧的事务，也开始崩塌。

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