Eventually he couldn't make sense of metaphors, similes, poems, or even complex sentences.

最终他不能搞清隐喻、明喻、诗歌，甚至于复杂的句子。

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This is the remarkable thing about so many of Milton's similes: they're always bursting out of whatever critical or theological constraints that we work so hard to impose on them.

这是弥尔顿的比喻中的亮点：,它们总是能从我们强加的,无论多批判多神学的束缚中,挣脱出来。

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Beehive, as he is coloquially referred to by the similes (Avice and her fellow Language-d humans) or Surl Tesh-echer as his name is translated into Anglo-Ubiq, is becoming a somewhat frightening figure.

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