Now we may assume, having read only that much of the simile, that Satan's spear is as tall as the mast of the ship, not a small spear.

简单的读了一下这个比喻，我们可能猜想，撒旦的长矛如同兵舰的桅杆一样高。

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When we pass him again, the man who was digging is fully underground, the ditch now as deep as he is tall.

我们再次走到老汉身边时，他已经挖到地面以下了。现在应该很深了，因为他个子挺高的。

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Fat people, skinny people, tall people, white people... they're just as alone as we are. But they're scared shitless.

不论是胖子，瘦子，高个，或是白人……他们其实都和我们一样孤独。但是他们格外的害怕。

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Sure enough as we pulled up we saw this tall man, you know, we'd all seen pictures of Johnny Otis with the nice hair and he looked like - he looked like a tall, kind of, like a creole man with a nice mustache and a beard and, you know, nice pompadour hair, and he was standing there all stately, and he had two or three more guys with him.

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