director Jackson used his native New Zealand for the ethereal scenes of the world beyond.

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It has been tempered in a celestial fire in ether, and it was the ether of the ethereal heavens that had always been thought -throughout the Renaissance and long before, of course -- to be the most perfect substance imaginable.

它是在广阔苍穹的天国之火中被锻造出，也是飘渺的天堂中的以太,不断地被提及,-贯穿于文艺复兴的始终，当然--是可想见的最完美的物质。

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So initially the ponderous shield is of an "ethereal temper," we are told.

最初我们被告知“,那个沉重的盾牌是坚厚而庞大的。

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It was no longer, after Galileo, of an ethereal temper.

在伽利略之后，它不再是一个沉重的盾牌。

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Not just that, but the moral certainties that may have seemed distinct when we contrasted the ethereal heaven with the spotty and the imperfect nature of Satan and of the moon -those, too begin to seem fairly hazy.

不仅如此，其中看起来有所不同的,当我们对比天堂和撒旦与月亮的不完美时,其中道德的确定性,-那些令人模糊朦胧的事务，也开始崩塌。

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This is how this logic goes -- we are all familiar with this: our body remains to molder in the earth or welter in the ocean , but our incorporeal spirit rises to heaven where it can enjoy an ethereal, a bodiless, world of eternity.

就是这种逻辑--我们都熟悉这个：,我们的肉体在地下或是海底归于腐朽,但灵魂却会升入天堂,在那里享受无形的永生。

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It's as if this celestial laser beam were designed so as to actually shift the atomic structure of the pure corporeal frame of the virgin's body until that body is so rarefied, so pure and ethereal, that it's nothing but soul.

这束天国的激光好像被设计成,去把处女纯净肉体的原子结构,变的纯化，纯粹和飘渺，那就是灵魂。

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