So the pharaoh enlists all of the people to annihilate the Israelites by drowning all newborn males in the Nile River.

法老便召集了所有人民歼灭以色列人,将男婴溺死在尼罗河中。

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And as they were past they see that a small child has fallen into the pond and is in danger drowning.

这时，你看到,一个小孩掉进了池塘,就要溺水，情况危急。

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But a few verses later it's clear that the poet isn't really drowning: this is a metaphor for his difficult situation.

但是随后的几首诗证明了，诗人并没有真正的溺水：,这里的水象征着困境。

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And even in Atlantis, of the legend the night the seas rushed in, The drowning men still bellowed for their slaves.

亚特兰蒂斯,传奇之地,惊涛之下,先没卑奴

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In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

在我所有的梦中，在我感到无助和恐怖的时刻，他总是冲向我，一会儿在水中左右摇摆，挣扎。

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He was drowned and the drowning was an accident.

他是溺水而死的，这只是一场意外。

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Later writers take this poetic image and fill out the allusion to - drowning in this ancient song, and compose the prose accounts in Exodus 14, in which the metaphor is literalized.

随后，作者利用这个场景,用这个古老的歌谣进行影射，创作了这一段白话诗,《出埃及记》14，在这段文字中的暗喻被文学化了。

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This is often referred to as the Song of the Sea, and here the image is one of sinking and drowning in the Sea of Reeds.

这里的诗指的是海之歌,描绘了人在Reed海中浮浮沉沉的情景。

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So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

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