And Milton reasonably alerts his reader to the timeliness of a lot of the material that would be covered in this poem.

弥尔顿合乎情理的向他的读者们,发出了这首诗所要描写的大量内容的警戒。

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In fact, this poem's power lies, I think, in its -not only its inability but its unwillingness to specify the content of that revelation.

实际上我觉得这首诗的力量，我想，在于,它不着重写启示的内容,也不愿意去写,启示的内容。

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There's no question that the shock experienced by the first readers of Paradise Lost had next to nothing to do with the content of this poem, which might strike us as shocking in itself.

毫无疑问，初次阅读《失乐园》的读者,会觉得震惊全然是因为它的内容，这首诗内容本身就是令人震惊的。

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