Then we have the simile of the fallen leaves, which compares the fallen angels to fallen leaves, and in that simile we have the image of the Israelites.

然后我们又看到落叶的明喻，在这里作者将堕落的天使比作了落叶，并且我们在这里又看到了以色列人的形象。

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As with the passage on the falling of the leaves there's a kind of elegiac tone that works to undo, or at least to challenge, our theological certainty.

在描写落叶的段落里,有一种挽歌式的腔调，似乎要抹掉，至少是挑战神学上的确定性。

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So, you could blow through that infantry like butter.

所以跟他们战斗就跟狂风扫落叶一般

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In The Iliad, as you can see, the warrior Glaucus uses the simile of the leaves to dismiss the importance of genealogy.

在里，你们会发现，武士格劳休斯,用了落叶的比喻来降低家族谱系的重要性。

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I think now we can see why these lines about the autumnal leavesare so difficult for us to incorporate into a moral reading or a theological reading of the poem.

我们现在可以看到为什么,这些关于秋天的落叶的句子如此难以,与对这首诗的道德或者神学的理解相结合。

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Homer and Virgil and, well after them, Dante and innumerable others have all applied the simile of the leaves or some version of it to describe the numberless-ness of the dead.

荷马，维吉尔，在他们之后还有但丁,以及无法计数的曾经用过这个落叶比喻,或者变种版本来形容死者的数量极多的其他诗人们。

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Very like leaves upon this earth are the generations of men."

人类的传宗接代如同落叶归根“

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This is the initial part of the simile that describes the leaves: "thick as Autumnal Leaves that strow the Brooks / in Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades / high overarch't imbow'r."

这是描写落叶的比喻的开始部分：,“他们人数众多，稠密得像秋天的繁叶,/在瓦隆布罗萨，厄特鲁利亚的光辉逐渐暗淡“

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This is the simile of the leaves.

这是关于落叶的比喻。

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