And as they were past they see that a small child has fallen into the pond and is in danger drowning.

这时，你看到,一个小孩掉进了池塘,就要溺水，情况危急。

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But a few verses later it's clear that the poet isn't really drowning: this is a metaphor for his difficult situation.

但是随后的几首诗证明了，诗人并没有真正的溺水：,这里的水象征着困境。

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He was drowned and the drowning was an accident.

他是溺水而死的，这只是一场意外。

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It's for this second printing that Milton adds the headnote that you see here that now begins the poem: "In this Monody the Author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drown'd in his Passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637."

在第二版中，他加上了眉批,你们现在都能看到：,“周一作者缅怀了一位，不幸于1637年在爱尔兰海上,溺水而亡的挚友“

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So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

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