We would think that Milton's contemporaries might be aghast that such a sympathetic portrait of Satan could be used at the beginning of the poem.

我们很可能以为，与弥尔顿同时代的人,看到本诗开头就对撒旦有如此具体系统的描述,定会感到惊骇。

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You can learn a lot by comparing Milton's poem to those of so many of his contemporaries.

通过把弥尔顿的诗与他的很多同时代人的诗比较,你能学到很多东西。

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Milton's contemporaries were endlessly conjecturing where it is exactly in the body that the soul resides.

与弥尔顿同时代的人无止境的思索,灵魂到底栖居在人体的哪个位置。

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