Later,after he had returned to England, he would be shocked to find that these very different birds were all finches.

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I think it's safe to say that we're intended to be shocked, ; maybe even repulsed, by this remarkable description of the deity; and so I'm hoping you feel something of a shock of these lines, "and mad'st it pregnant." Milton is taking a huge aesthetic risk here.

通过这不同寻常的对神的刻画，弥尔顿，应该是想要让我们震惊，甚至厌恶的;,因此我希望你们因这几句感到些许震撼，“使它怀孕“，弥尔顿在这里为了美感不惜冒了很大的险。

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Well, we should be shocked, and I think beyond that we have every right to feel a little bit betrayed, because Milton quite simply has -- and he's doing this deliberately -he has just violated an important law.

我们应该非常吃惊，除了这点以外,我们有着充分的权利感到有点被背叛的感觉，因为弥尔顿只是-并且他非常刻意,他只是违背了一项重要的原则。

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Because they said the experiment must go on, very often, people went-- most people, Americans went on and shocked that person, even to the point of the other person whimpering and begging to be let out, simply because of the word, " "the experiment must go on".

因为他们说实验必须进行下去，经常的，人们会-,多数人，美国人都会继续电击那个人，甚至电击到另一个人哭泣,恳求放他出去，仅仅是因为那一句，“实验必须进行下去。

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