What does this observer ab extra represent?

这置身局外的观察者代表了什么？

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First we have the "Pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff," and the pilot stands ab extra, from outside, in the simile.

首先我们看这句“迷茫深夜中，轻舟的导航人”，在这个明喻中，导航人从诗句之外向内眺望。

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Hartman associates this image of Milton's standing ab extra with the figures in so many of those similes who seem also to be standing ab extra.

哈特曼把弥尔顿从外俯视的形象，和众多的明喻中似乎也置身局外的形象相联系。

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There's a second figure here standing ab extra, and that's the moon hovering overhead: "while over-head the Moon / sits Arbitress."

这里有第二个置身事外的角色，就是高高挂在空中的月亮：,“月亮高挂天心，像个公正的决断人“

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First we have the "Pilot of some small night-founder'd Skiff," and the pilot stands ab extra, from outside, in the simile.

首先我们有这句“迷茫深夜中，轻舟的导航人“,并且这个导航人在明喻中，体现为从诗句之外向内眺望。

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Hartman describes Milton's tendency in Paradise Lost, and he takes this term from Coleridge: the tendency to stand ab extra, to stand from outside.

哈特曼描述了弥尔顿在中的写作趋向，并且从柯勒律治那里借用了这个习语：,由外而内俯视自身的趋势。

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