They are individual creatures who seem really to be in hell just as they seem really to have been in heaven; but the figures of Sin and Death, they are entirely different animals.

他们是独立的生灵，身处于地狱,也曾经生活在天堂;,但是罪恶之神和死神却是两个完全不同的生物。

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Milton wants the reader to know that she's fallen, we are all fallen, and any problem that we have in understanding the theology of heaven and hell is our problem as fallen readers.

弥尔顿希望读者认识到她在堕落，我们也在堕落，以及我们在理解天堂中遇到的任何问题,以及地狱式我们这些堕落了的读者们的心魔。

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