用比喻的方式，并列的术语隐含着它们所指称的存在的具体或本质的特征，引入了一种诗歌的模式作为习惯性的表达形式。

Used metaphorically, the juxtaposed terms connote specific or essential traits of the being they refer to, introducing a mode of poetry as an almost habitual form of expression.

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它们蜂拥或聚集在一起的方式通常不会得到媒体的正面报道：城市的通勤者往往会被比喻成像工蚁一样行进，但这种比喻是一个不佳的、负面的形象。

The way they swarm or flock together does not usually get good press coverage either: marching like worker ants might be a common simile for city commuters, but it's a damning, not positive, image.

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比喻为团队提供了一致的画面，他们可以用它来描述现有系统的工作方式、新部件适合的位置，以及它们应该采取的形式。

The metaphor gives the team a consistent picture they can use to describe the way the existing system works, where new parts fit, and what form they should take.

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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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And so it would seem to be Dante's use of the image that has a primary influence here on Milton, but, as we might expect, there is a complication in the way that Milton uses this particular image.

因此但丁对这个比喻的应用,对弥尔顿有最深刻的影响，但是，如我们期待的，这里弥尔顿在运用,这个特别的比喻的方式上，有一点复杂。

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