圣典里的比喻形象是一扇硬木门：朝那扇门扔过去一个线团，根本不会留下一点凹痕。

The image in the Canon is of a solid wooden door: a ball of string thrown at the door won't leave a dent at all.

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套译的谚语，译语读者对其中的比喻形象比较熟悉，因此易于为译语读者所理解和接受。

The wrap translates the proverb, translates the language reader quite to be familiar to analogy image, therefore easy for translates the language reader to understand and to accept.

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译文往往需要改变原文的形式，甚至牺牲原文中精彩的比喻形象，以求得功能上的对等。

Sometimes it is necessary to change the original form or even give up some brilliant images to obtain a functional equivalence.

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It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

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Okay. That's one way to read the simile, one way to make sense of this mention of the X, the Galileo figure.

这是理解这个比喻的一种方式，一种了解X，即伽利略的形象的方式。

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