For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

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Milton has his hero, Samson, bewailing the fact of his blindness: "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon irrecoverably dark, total eclipse without all hope of day!"

弥尔顿描写到自己崇拜的英雄参孙悲叹自己失明：,黑暗，黑暗，黑暗，在正午的光辉中,无法改变的黑暗，黯然的没有一点希望“

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