"The challenge of Iran truly today, has been revealed more than ever with their most recent missile test which has a capability of striking to the West as far as southeastern Europe,Turkey, but to the East could strike our allies in Pakistan,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Now we might at first think that Satan's vaunting here is the product of nothing more elevated than hate and a desire for revenge, but Milton's doing something truly extraordinary.

我们首先会想到撒旦之所以在这里自吹自擂,不过是因为他的仇恨和复仇的欲望，不过弥尔顿在这里做了不同寻常的艺术处理。

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Well,maybe the explanation is, although we give lip service to the claim that we're mortal, at some more fundamental level,we don't truly believe it.

也许这个的解释就是，纵然我们口头上说我们会死，在某些最根本的层面上我们其实并不相信。

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