The simile is there ostensibly to compare Satan with the great sea beast, leviathan.

这个明喻很明显是将撒旦和凶猛的海中野兽利维坦进行了对比。

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The simile isn't telling us that Satan's spear is as small as a wand because what we have is a syllogism here.

这个比喻没有告诉我们撒旦的长矛像魔杖一样小，因为我们在这儿有一个演绎推理。

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First we have the "Pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff," and the pilot stands ab extra, from outside, in the simile.

首先我们看这句“迷茫深夜中，轻舟的导航人”，在这个明喻中，导航人从诗句之外向内眺望。

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And it's this final movement of the simile, according to this ingenious argument by Geoffrey Hartman, that Hartman calls the counter-plot.

根据哈特曼灵巧的论点看来，这就是这个比喻最后的深意，他称之为反计。

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First we have the "Pilot of some small night-founder'd Skiff," and the pilot stands ab extra, from outside, in the simile.

首先我们有这句“迷茫深夜中，轻舟的导航人“,并且这个导航人在明喻中，体现为从诗句之外向内眺望。

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The simile sets out to establish the moral polarities between good and evil, but it then works almost systematically to undo that understanding.

这里的比喻开始创造出善与恶之间的,两极性，然而后来它又几乎自动的抹去了这种理解。

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Or you can drop the simile and say they are one of the same (or cut from the same cloth).

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The footage of the IDF's celebrated naval commandos falling prey to an Islamic lynch mob on the deck of the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara on Monday morning serves as a perfect simile for the national mood.

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