I think this is an important distinction because what you have here in the middle of this simile in Milton's account of hell is an image of a bower.

我认为这是一个非常重要的区别,因为读到半途,弥尔顿对地狱的描述仅给了我们一个阴暗的印象。

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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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