The rebellious artist Milton and the rebellious astronomer Galileo are continually threatening to lapse into some sort of identity with Satan himself.

叛逆的艺术家弥尔顿，和同样叛逆的天文学家伽利略,不断的陷入某种对撒旦的确认的,危险之中。

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There's a lapse in logic here, and this lapse should focus our interest all the more on the urgency that we feel in Saint Peter's speech.

这里有一处逻辑的空缺，这块空缺将我们所有的兴趣都集中在了,圣彼得的演说中体现出的急迫感。

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She quickly recovers from this brief lapse, a momentary lapse, into sensual reverie.

迅速地从这个短暂的过失恢复回来，霎那间的过失，一个感官的遐想。

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The lapse makes a certain kind of sense, I think, because it's virginity and not married chastity that the Lady imagines will allow her to demonstrate such a remarkable show of rhetorical strength.

我认为这一疏忽是有一定意义的，因为是女士想象的童贞,而并非婚姻贞节使得她,展现出如此强大的话语权。

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