So Judah, the Southern Kingdom, is a tribute-paying vassal state to the Assyrian overlord. And of course there's a great deal of Assyrian cultural influence and religious influence in Judah as a result.

那么犹大，南部王国，是纳贡者-向亚述统治者,上交贡赋理所应当的，他们受到了许多亚述,文化和宗教影响。

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In a way it's a tribute to the great creator and also an acknowledgement of the fact that the great creator lives in the Eternal Moment.

从一方面来看，这是对造物主的赞颂,也是在承认,造物主住在永恒的世界。

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In this respect, he seems to have followed Spenser -- Edmund Spenser, whose Faerie Queeneis in large part a tribute to the sacrament of marriage, although interestingly The Faerie Queene, the great Spenserian poem, never actually manages to feature a marriage between two human beings.

这样看来，他似乎是,秉承了斯宾塞--埃德蒙·斯宾塞，他的作品《仙后》,很大程度上来说是对婚姻圣礼的颂词，尽管有趣的是，《仙后》,这一伟大的斯宾塞体诗歌，从没有真正意义上,在两人的婚姻中发挥重要作用。

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