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。

The pastoral elegance of this little simile really catches us off guard.

这个有着田园诗情画意般优雅的小比喻确实让我们毫无防备。

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。

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。

Satan's shield is as big as the moon—this is the most common form of simile, epic, or otherwise, and it can be schematized.

撒旦的盾如同月亮一般庞大——这是最常见的比喻、史诗或其他形式，并且还可以被系统化。

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

根据哈特曼巧妙的论点，这就是这个比喻最后的乐章，他称之为反计。

I think this is an important distinction because what in the middle of this simile in Milton's account of hell is an image of a bower.

我认为这是一个重要的区别，因为在弥尔顿对地狱的描述中，这个比喻的中间，是一个凉亭的形象。

The way they swarm or flock together does not usually get good press coverage either: marching like worker ants might be a common simile for city commuters, but it's a damning, not positive, image.

它们蜂拥或聚集在一起的方式通常不会得到媒体的正面报道：城市的通勤者往往会被比喻成像工蚁一样行进，但这种比喻是一个不佳的、负面的形象。

That was the Galileo simile.

这是伽利略的比喻。

Try to understand this simile.

努力理解这一比喻。

What does this simile mean?

这样的比喻是什么含义？

This is the simile of the leaves.

这是关于落叶的比喻。

However, Bhikkhus, this is just a simile.

然而诸比丘，这只是一个比喻。

Did you notice the simile in the course title?

你是否注意到这个课程标题的比喻？

Common language of metaphor and simile form of metaphor.

语常见的比喻形式有明喻和隐喻。

But it's a busted simile when you look at the circumstances.

但是，当你关注形势时，会发现这不是一个成功的比喻。

Hartman's image of the simile isn't temporal the way Fish's was.

哈特曼关于这些比喻的描述并不是时间性的。

Why had the divine author permitted himself the ambiguity of simile?

为什么神圣的作者允许自己做模棱两可的比喻？

The writer uses imagism and other figure of speech like simile etc.

作者在诗中使用了象征主义手法，和比喻等修辞方法。

I’ll start with a deliberately melodramatic simile, then explain it.

首先我要用一个故意进行了戏剧化夸张的比喻来说明我的观点，然后再进行解释。

However, an economic model is not an accurate blueprint but an analytical simile.

然而，经济模型不是一幅准确的蓝图，而是一个分析的明喻。

This simile is not on all fours with the thing that is is supposed to illustrate.

这个比喻同那个要说明的事物不大贴切。

However, for a long time, most scholars' analysis of simile focuses on its description only.

但长期以来，学者们对比喻的论述多是停留在描写层面。

Galileo appears in the simile but actually seems to be unnecessary for the general purposes of the comparison.

伽利略在这个明喻中出现了，但明显他对于，这个对比的整体目的来讲是可有可无的。

Then, one of the monks requested the Lord Buddha to explain the simile, which the Buddha did it in this way.

接着就有一位比丘请求佛陀解释这个比喻。佛陀就详细加以解释。

If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait.

如果你能理解这样一个滥俗的比喻：我们已经拉响了火警警报，接下来能做的只有等待。

If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait.

倘若你能原谅我做出这么一个平淡无奇的比喻的话，那就是我们已经拉响了火灾警报，除了等待无事可做。

Now, the purpose of this simile is to evince the indistinctness and the confusion produced by our vision of the fallen angels.

这个比喻的目的，是要表明由我们想象的天使们的样子，带来的模糊和困惑。