Twenty years ago, Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomenei issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on the faithful to kill author Salman Rushdie, a British citizen, over his book The Satanic Verses.

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I would go so far to say that something like a satanic sensibility may be one of our best guides in our reading of Milton.

我大可以这样说，这种撒旦式的艺术感受力,可能是我们阅读弥尔顿时的最好引导之一。

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The similes work not to sew everything up but make it impossible for us to maintain anything like the official position on a moral distinction between heavenly good and satanic evil.

这些比喻不是为了简单的拼凑，而是让我们不能,维持住任何天堂之善与撒旦之恶之间的,清晰的官方界限。

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There's a fear here that the ambition of this bid for paternal light is presumptuous, perhaps it's even satanic Satan of course in the next book, Book Four will have his invocation to light.

人们会担心弥尔顿认为光与上帝差不多的想法,过于胆大妄为，或许是极恶的,当然，第四卷里的撒旦,也会祈求光明。

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Of course, perhaps even more troubling is the satanic parallel as well.

当然，或许更令人头疼的是在撒旦身上进行的类比。

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