I would go so far to say that something like a satanic sensibility may be one of our best guides in our reading of Milton.

我大可以这样说，这种撒旦式的艺术感受力,可能是我们阅读弥尔顿时的最好引导之一。

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Rather they presuppose relations that is to say political relations not between lovers or even best friends of some kind but between civic partners who may in fact be intensely rivalrous and competitive with one another for positions of political office and honor.

相反地，他们假设的关系,确切地说是政治关系,并非介于爱人或甚至是最好朋友间的关系,而是介于公民伙伴间,他们可能处于,彼此紧张敌对或竞争的关系,以求争得政治官位或荣誉。

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