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“I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked and saw him open the book and read there in; and, as he read, he wept, and trembled; and not being able longer to contain, he broke out with lamentable cry, saying “what shall I do?” “一个人穿着破烂的衣服，站在一个地方，背对着自己的房舍，手里拿着一本书，背上负着一个沉重的包袱。我正看着，只见他打开书本一边阅读，一边流泪，全身颤抖，后来情不自禁的伤心起来：“我应该做点什么？” The Pilgrim’s Progress allegory a tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings represents abstract ideas or moral qualities. Thus, an allegory is story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. The most famous allegory in English literature is John Buyan’s The Pilgrim Progress. Christian-----基督 Pliable-------易信 Slough of Despond----失望泥沼 Mr. Worldly Wiseman---世智先生 Mr. Legality----合法先生 Mr. Evangelist------传道者 Faithful----忠诚 Vanity Fair----名利场 Judge Hate-Good----恨善先生 Hopeful----希望 Giant Despair----绝望 Doubting Castle----怀疑城堡 The Celestial City----圣城 The pilgrims arrive to the city of Vanity, where they find Vanity Fair, that is, “a fair, wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity…Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honours, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.” Metaphysical poets: It is a term now generally applied to a group of 17th century poets, chiefly John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, and Abraham Cawley. Later, Samuel J