用光明与黑暗来象征善与恶。

The use of light and dark symbolizes good and evil.

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因为他们认为不是所有的灵魂都是友善的，所以就把礼物和好吃的留在外面安慰恶灵来确保来年的庄稼可以丰收。

Since not all spirits were thought to be friendly, gifts and treats were left out to pacify the evil and ensure next years crops would be plentiful.

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于是主人叫了他来，对他说，你这恶奴才，你央求我，我就把你所欠的都免了。

Then the master called the servant in. `You wicked servant, ' he said, `I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.

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We'll be doing this in one week, and the disjunction between the two works, this disjunction at least with respect to their treatment of the Fall, should dramatize the nature, or just the enormity, of a lot of the conceptual problems and conflicts that Milton is tackling here.

我们在一周内都会来做这个工作，将这两部著作分离开来，这种分离至少要尊重他们对秋天不同的理解，应该将自然戏剧化，还是只是极恶,弥尔顿在这里应对的很多观念上的问题和冲突。

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