But for Milton's contemporaries in the seventeenth century, Milton's power really wasn't at all aesthetic or even religious in nature.

但在17世纪弥尔顿同时代的人看来，弥尔顿的力量却是毫无美感的，甚至本质上不是宗教上的。

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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 Milton's power for so many of these contemporaries was seen as palpably destructive and truly frightening.

在很多这样的同时代的人看来，弥尔顿的力量,破坏力显而易见，着实吓人。

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You can learn a lot by comparing Milton's poem to those of so many of his contemporaries.

通过把弥尔顿的诗与他的很多同时代人的诗比较,你能学到很多东西。

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Milton's contemporaries were endlessly conjecturing where it is exactly in the body that the soul resides.

与弥尔顿同时代的人无止境的思索,灵魂到底栖居在人体的哪个位置。

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There was a lot of validity to that contemporary cultural fear.

这种同时代的人在文化上对他的恐惧心理确实存在。

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What did Homer or any of Homer's contemporaries know about Mulciber?

荷马和荷马同时代的人对于莫西伯又知道什么呢？

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And so it's an understandable ploy on Milton's part that he needs to vilify Shakespeare by identifying that great poet, his older contemporary, with Comus.

所以就弥尔顿而言，是一个可理解的事,他需要通过认同那伟大的诗句来贬低莎士比亚，用Comus来压倒比他年纪较大的同时代人。

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