"Obviously it is very graphic in nature, and it's extremely tragic."

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She didn't hear the original command. Or did she just mishear in some very tragic version of the telephone game.

但是夏娃并没有亲耳听到上帝的命令,也许她从电话恶作剧中，听到了另一个版本。

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The very idea that a figure so virtuous could have been dealt such a tragic and early death strikes Milton, or Milton's speaker here, as the rankest injustice.

这么贞洁的一个人竟然会这么早,就如此悲惨的死去，这极端不公平使弥尔顿，或者是诗中的讲述者，震惊。

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