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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According to the Priestly source, blood, the blood that courses through one's veins, represents the life force.

根据祭司资料，血,在人血管中流动，代表着生命的力量。

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In 1928, and this is the next quotation on the handout, Milton has come to represent for Virginia Woolf a very different type of cultural force.

在1928年，这是讲义中的下一条引语，弥尔顿对佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫又成了,一种不同类型的文化力量的代表。

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The sovereign representative acts, you might say, like a filter for the wills and passions of the people.

而君主代表的行动，就像人民意志和力量的过滤器。

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The short answer is that I think these writers best represent all the different threads, all the different forces in the American Novel Since 1945.

简单的回答是我觉得这些作家极洽当地,代表了1945年以来美国小说中的，各种主题和力量。

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Right. So when I encountered Dorothy Day, I had no illusion of wanting to be her, I only wanted to be a part of that energy.

对，因此，当我知道Dorothy，Day时，我没有幻想成为她那样的人，我只是想加入到她代表的力量中。

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We're naturally invited to question what force is it that this moon represents.

我们很自然的会想问,月亮代表的是哪一股力量。

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She's a daughter of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, and she represents that force that prevents Milton from forgetting all of the pagan and all of the classical literature that, of course, he had spent so much of his life reading.

她是记忆女神摩涅莫辛涅的女儿，她代表着力量,这种力量阻止着弥尔顿忘记所有的异教神,以及所有的古典文学，当然，那些文学他已经花了大半辈子阅读了。

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