I speak in a figurative way about the relationship between the earth and the sky, and I believe that there's a sky god.

我用一种修辞法,来说天地关系，我相信有一个天神。

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It's that she's rotting; there is mushrooms growing on her, figurative mushrooms growing on her head.

她就像在腐烂;,就像有蘑菇长在她的脸上，她的脸除了些许白斑都是紫色。

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Milton lends a special horror, I think, to this image of a blind Fury, and I hope you will agree with those critics -- I didn't make this up - who find embedded in these lines something like a figurative intimation of castration.

弥尔顿给这个暴怒形象添加了特殊的恐怖色彩，我希望你们同意--这不是我编造的,-有评论家发现这几句字里行间,在暗喻阉割。

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