"The British public, millions of extra people that tuned in last night, are aghast by the display of bias from the BBC, the venom from the political class, and the sheer unfairness.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

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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