They've been humiliated by the Son of God and the other priggish loyalist angels so they are pained, utterly humiliated.

他们被上帝之子和其他,一本正经忠于上帝的天使们羞辱,他们备受羞辱，痛不欲生。

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To drink from this river would allow the fallen angels to forget their fallen state, to forget the fact of their fallen-ness from their more blissful former condition.

喝忘川之水让那些堕落天使,忘记他们的堕落的处境，忘记自己堕落这一现实,忘记自己是从幸福天堂堕落的事实。

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For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

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It's a fantasy, of course, because no such brainwashing is going to be possible, just as the fallen angels - if you look at line 607 - will be barred from drinking their fill of the river Lethe, forgetfulness is impossible.

当然这是一次幻想，因为这种洗脑,根本就不可能实现，就如同那些堕落天使一般,如果看第607行7,他们被禁止喝忘川之水，遗忘是不可能的。

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You'll want to think about why Milton seems so aggressively to invite the association of the failure of the just revolution of the Puritans, and of course that's how he would see it, with the failure of the unjust revolution of the rebel angels under the guidance of Satan.

弥尔顿如此迫切的将清教徒的正义革命之失败,与我们所认为的撒旦领导下的叛乱天使们的，非正义革命之失败联系在一起,我们会疑惑他为什么要这样做。

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