Milton is narrating or representing the process by which they are silenced. They're rendered speechless or dumb, and the poem effects this process in order to give someone else an opportunity to speak.

弥尔顿在叙述或描绘这个,他们缄默的过程，他们都变得沉默或哑巴了，同时诗歌也影响了这个过程,为了使另外某个人有机会开口说话。

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So the mad scientist explains all of this to you, but in order to give it a little kicker, because he's also an evil mad scientist-- that may be evil already,but because he's an evil mad scientist-- he says,And then when I'm done-- So over here we've got Shelly's body but Linda's personality.

于是疯狂科学家向你解释这一切，但为了增加一点戏剧性，因为他同时是个邪恶的疯狂科学家-,因为他是既邪恶又疯狂的科学家-,他说，当我完成之后…,这是Shelly的肉体和Linda的人格。

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