The circuitous, logical route that we had to take in order to arrive at this new sense of Satan's size has everything to do with our status as temporally bound, temporally constrained readers.

我们需要经历一个迂回曲折的逻辑过程,来从新的意义上理解撒旦的高大,和我们目前处在的，作为世俗压制下的读者的地位，有着紧密的联系。

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Mr. Ives's hapless characters are all trying to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, usually in the most circuitous of ways.

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Now sales representatives can see if a new customer's cars can easily hitch onto a direct train or whether they will need to take a more circuitous, and costly, route.

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