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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He drinks more. So, he's getting very desperate.

他更加凶猛的酗酒，这现实他慢慢变得绝望。

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You have the young storm god, Marduk, who defeats Tiamat, the watery ferocious deep monster, and does so by blasting a wind into her and so establishes his claim to rule, instead of the old sky god, Anu.

年轻的暴风之神Marduk，凭借一阵狂风，打败了Tiamat-在深水凶猛的怪物,他取代了天空之神Anu，建立了自己的统治。

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