At times when we read Paradise Lost it seems almost as if Satan were quoting or alluding to Comus.

有时当我们读《失乐园》时,就好像看到Satan在引用Comus的话或影射他。

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It's not until Book Three, until after Milton presents his heroic portrait of Satan and his heroic portrait of the fallen angels when he establishes the fact of his blindness.

直到第三卷弥尔顿呈现,他对撒旦和降落的天使们的英勇形象后,他才证实自己失明的事实。

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Not just that, but the moral certainties that may have seemed distinct when we contrasted the ethereal heaven with the spotty and the imperfect nature of Satan and of the moon -those, too begin to seem fairly hazy.

不仅如此，其中看起来有所不同的,当我们对比天堂和撒旦与月亮的不完美时,其中道德的确定性,-那些令人模糊朦胧的事务，也开始崩塌。

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