We would think that Milton's contemporaries might be aghast that such a sympathetic portrait of Satan could be used at the beginning of the poem.

我们会认为，与弥尔顿的同时代人，可能会被这首诗的开头所使用的对撒旦同情的描述所震惊。

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Satan promised Adam and Eve that if they followed his advice, “you shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5 KJV).

当年，撒旦向亚当和夏娃许诺说，他们要是听了自己的建议，“你们便如神一样了”（创世纪3:5）

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That prideful lie is Satan's oldest temptation. Satan promised Adam and Eve that if they followed his advice, “you shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5 KJV).

这个狂妄的谎言就是撒旦那个古老的试探。当年，撒旦向亚当和夏娃许诺说，他们要是听了自己的建议，“你们便如神一样了”（创世纪3:5）

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We would think that Milton's contemporaries might be aghast that such a sympathetic portrait of Satan could be used at the beginning of the poem.

我们很可能以为，与弥尔顿同时代的人,看到本诗开头就对撒旦有如此具体系统的描述,定会感到惊骇。

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And so we adjust our minds to accommodate -because presumably we weren't imagining Satan to be that big -to accommodate this sense of Satan's tremendous physical magnitude.

我们调整了自己的思维来适应这个,-因为我们之前并未设想他的长矛有那么大,-来适应撒旦如此高大的想法。

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It's an ignominy and a shame because it may very well be - I think this is without question what Satan is implying here - it may very well be that God is not actually omnipotent.

它是耻辱，是蒙羞，很可能是因为,-我认为毫无疑问撒旦是在暗示,-因为很有可能上帝其实不是万能的。

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He warned the others to be on their guard for Satan, who could enter their dreams and make them doubt the righteousness of their path.

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Sometime around when Satan starts looking for his winter woollies I expect that will be but a man can hope, eh?

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Yates even expected to be executed, Resnick said, and her death would fulfill her delusional prophecy, as she believed Satan already had won the battle for her soul.

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