There's no question that the shock experienced by the first readers of Paradise Lost had next to nothing to do with the content of this poem, which might strike us as shocking in itself.

毫无疑问，初次阅读《失乐园》的读者,会觉得震惊全然是因为它的内容，这首诗内容本身就是令人震惊的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Some of the most important fascinating studies in the field of psychology where a person off the street was told by an experimenter to shock another person, even to the point where the other person is screaming to stop.

两者都是心理学领域,最精彩的研究，在街上随便找个人,在实验者的指示去电击另一个人，甚至电击到另一个人尖叫恳求停止。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I'm not sure how much this gonna be covered in the course, but I'm very interested in the way films are recieved by audience and the shock value that film can have be acceptable in film and through time how it changes.

我不知道这门课,会多大程度上和这个话题相关，但是我对此,电影被观众接受的方式和带给观众的冲击,和电影是如何随着时间不断变化的,很感兴趣。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选