Bloomberg's dismal debate performances discouraged moderates still looking for a deus ex machina.
布隆伯格糟糕的辩论表现令仍在指望奇迹发的温和派大失所望。
In Euripides' Electra, Medea, and Orestes, we witness catastrophe upon catastrophe, events that are so " badly motivated" that they require the external, mechanical intercession of the deus ex machina that Aristotle criticizes.
在欧里庇得斯的伊莱克特拉、美狄亚和俄瑞斯忒斯中,我们目睹了一场又一场的灾难,这些事件的动机如此“恶劣”,以至于它们需要亚里士多德批评的机械神的外部机械干预。
A villain in a play can never be anything more than a diabolus ex machina, possibly a more exciting expedient than a deus ex machina, but both equally mechanical, and therefore interesting only as mechanism.
戏剧中的恶棍永远不过是一个 diabolus ex machina,可能比 deus ex machina 更令人兴奋的权宜之计,但两者同样机械,因此仅作为机制才有趣。
Goldhill discusses Sophocles' Philoctetes, where the latter gradually persuades Neoptolemus, who has been sent to force him back to Troy, until Heracles appears in a deus ex machina and the matter is settled by a kind of divine violence or force.
Goldhill 讨论了 Sophocles 的 Philoctetes,后者逐渐说服了 Neoptolemus,Neoptolemus 被派遣迫使他返回特洛伊,直到 Heracles 出现在 deus ex machina 中, 事情被一种神圣的暴力或力量解决了。