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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But what we have here is an image of the beauty of that change, the beauty of the fact that the leaves are falling.

但是我们看到的是一幅美丽的变化的图像，叶子在飘落带来的美丽图画。

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Rather, Adeimantus' concern, and he gives a very revealing image of what he takes justice to be, is with an image of self-guardianship, or self-control.

反而如，Adeimantus，所关心的，且他还描绘出一幅非常具启发性,关于他所认为的正义意涵画面，那是一幅自我守护的画面，或说自控。

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Now we began Lycidas with an image of a poet who could only write this poem -- this is what we were told -with forced fingers rude.

现在我们带着一个只能创作出这首诗的诗人的印象,来看这首诗,手指粗暴的用力攥着。

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