Standing in the Lethe of Milton's hell is none other than the classical figure, the figure from classical mythology, Medusa.

站在弥尔顿笔下的忘川河畔正是,那个源自神话的经典人物美杜莎。

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The blind Fury here is the mythological figure Atropos; this is the Fate that cuts the slender thread by which our lives dangle.

这里的暴怒是指神话人物阿特洛波斯;,命运剪断了维系生命的细线。

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Dante and Milton had mythologies, Shakespeare the characters of English history, of traditional romance is more type than man, more passion than type.

但丁，弥尔顿，莎士比亚写神话,英国历史，古典爱情的人物,是激情而非类型。

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Such is her power. But we have every right to ask what Medusa - this is a figure from Greek mythology - what Medusa is doing in a Christian hell.

她有那样的力量，但我们有权问问美杜莎,这一希腊神话里的人物,在基督教的地狱里做什么。

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He's almost a mythological figure who can sanction, who can authorize this revolution in women's writing that Virginia Woolf is beginning to prophesy here early in the twentieth century.

他是神话般的人物，可以批准，可以授权这场女性文学的革命，这场革命佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫,在20世纪早期就预言到了。

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There are, of course, dozens of figures taken from the texts of classical mythology who are alluded to throughout the first two books, but invariably they appear, just as Tantalus does in this very passage, within the context of a simile.

当然，这部作品有很多人物是取材自,经典神话故事，他们是用来表达隐喻的,贯穿着前两册书，他们始终出现，就像丹达罗斯在这一诗篇中，给予诗内容一种喻示。

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