They're prostrate on the burning lake of this miserable new realm called hell, yet nonetheless Satan pulls himself together and begins to analyze, to theorize, his situation.

他们匍匐在这个痛苦的被叫做地狱的国度,身边是燃烧的湖水，然而撒旦还是振作了起来,开始分析思考他的处境。

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For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

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