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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This is part of the arrogance that is characteristic of the Ancient Greeks, but at the same time, and right away at the beginning we're getting to such a very Greek thing, a Greek characteristic.

这部分体现了古希腊人的特点,傲慢,但与此同时——,我们现在就要谈到到一个非常希腊式的事情,一个希腊人的特点——

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