Splice uses unexpected flashes of dark humor to defuse the tension as it draws the audience into ever-more shocking story turns.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

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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whether it was the mental health workers, whether it was the philosophers,psychologists, praise the program as the best,as highly effective, when they looked at the raw objective data, the results were shocking.

无论是心理健康学者，哲学家，心理学家，都说这是最佳，最高效的研究方案，但当他们看到原始的样本数据，调研结果让他们震惊。

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He had not only written really quite daringly on behalf of the execution of this particular king, but he wrote another pamphlet, Eikonoklastes , which is a shocking defense of just regicide in general - not just in England, but as a kind of political principle.

他不仅对处死国王一事大胆的发表言论,还写了另外一本书，《圣容破坏者》,这本书为正义的弑君做了惊人的辩护,-不仅是在英国的这次弑君，还是一条普遍的政治原则。

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