Look at the last two lines: "But that two-handed engine at the door stands ready to smite once, and smite no more."

看一下最后两行：,“然门边的双手引擎“,整装待发着发出毁灭性的打击“

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Whatever the two-handed engine is, it will smite once and smite no more.

不论双手引擎是什么，它都会不断的进行攻击。

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So if you flip the info page over on the back here, what you'll see is the periodic table, this is the same one that I've handed out in the last two lectures - the periodic table without any electron configurations.

将这张纸翻过来，你可以看到一个元素周期表，这与我们前两次课发过的,是一样的,-没有任何电子排布的周期表。

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Now we will never know, and don't let anyone ever suggest to you that you will ever know, what Milton could possibly mean by this deliberately perplexing image of the two-handed engine at the door.

我们永远不会知道,弥尔顿在这句描写门边的双手引擎的,刻意的意象叠加里想要表达什么。

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There are no less than twenty pages devoted to the critical debate on these two lines: what the hell Saint Peter's two-handed engine is, what it looks like, what it does, what -- and everything about it.

集中描写这两行里的争论的,不少于20页：,圣彼得的双手引擎到底是什么，长什么样，用来干什么-和关于它的所有所有。

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Size matters here; and this -the two-handed engine -- is big, and it works, and it's able to put an apocalyptic end to all corruption and in fact it's able to put something like an apocalyptic end to all life.

大小在这里很重要,这个双手引擎是非常大的，它工作着，还能够启示一切腐败的终结,实际上它能够给所有生物带来天启的结束。

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