It is based on the story of a fairy from heaven who comes to Earth and marries a cowhand on a farm.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Even the expulsion of Satan from heaven was not sufficient to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the legitimate authority of God.

即使是将撒旦逐出天堂也不足以,无可置疑的证明上帝的至高权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's an image of ascent toward heaven, from which the boy returns.

这是接近天堂的的样子，从那里，这个孩子又回到地面。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Now I understand. God in Heaven has been raising you for this place from the day you were born."

VOA: special.2009.02.14

And this new pharaoh will enslave the Israelites, and so embitter their lives, that their cry will rise up to heaven the same cry from the generation of the flood, the same cry from Sodom and Gomorrah.

这个新法老将会迫使以色列人为奴，他如此激怒他们，他们的哭号传至天堂,就像大洪水时期一样的哭号，像来自罪恶之城俄摩拉城一样的哭号。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You just can not do that." Most of those readers interpret Susie's spirit observing events from an afterlife a heaven,if you will;

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

So much of the pathos of Satan's fallen condition involves his painful memory of that blissful state in heaven from which he had fallen.

很多撒旦堕落后的悲怆,夹杂了他憾失此前在天堂的幸福生活的,苦痛的回忆。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The heaven in this poem is so far from being the incorporeal - the spiritual heaven of orthodox Christianity that you have an image of an actual orgy, the festal orgy raging under the thyrsus .

这首诗所描绘的天堂与正统基督教所宣扬的,非物质的，精神的天堂是如此大相径庭,弥尔顿描绘了一副纵欲狂欢的场景,在神杖下纵欲狂欢。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选