It's entirely imaginable that Milton could have been executed for his writings on behalf of the killing of King Charles.

由于他所写的关于处死查理国王的文章,弥尔顿完全可能被处死的。

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He had not only written really quite daringly on behalf of the execution of this particular king, but he wrote another pamphlet, Eikonoklastes , which is a shocking defense of just regicide in general - not just in England, but as a kind of political principle.

他不仅对处死国王一事大胆的发表言论,还写了另外一本书，《圣容破坏者》,这本书为正义的弑君做了惊人的辩护,-不仅是在英国的这次弑君，还是一条普遍的政治原则。

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