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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Sue got a sympathetic round of applause.

苏获得了一阵同情的掌声。

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What would cause the masses to give him a far more sympathetic ear?

什么能使大众更富同情心地听他诉说呢？

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He says it is hard being a Yellow Shirt in a red town, where many in the security forces and government are sympathetic to the Reds.

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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 Mars has this sort of human, flabby torso that's not-- it's sympathetic, but it's a different portrayal of war.

马尔斯看起来像一个普通人,略微虚胖,这一点让人同情,但这是对战争的不同描写

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If anything, Collins has emerged as a sympathetic figure in a lost era.

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Barnea opened his essay with a sympathetic depiction of a delegation of five anti-Israel US Congressmen organized by the anti-Israel lobby J Street.

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Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) as a sympathetic monster, a compound of intelligence, repression, and misery a man whose inner turmoil, tamed and sharpened, irrupts in authoritarian fervor.

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