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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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He is more steeped in the sensuous beauty of classical literature, the classical tradition, than probably anyone else of his generation.
他比同时代的任何人都沉湎于古典文学感觉上的美，一种经典的传统的美。
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But when you look at it in a comparative light in its legal context, we see that it's a polemic against the class distinctions that were being drawn in antecedent and contemporary legal systems, such as the Code of Hammurabi.
但当你在法律背景下以一种比较的观点看待它时，会发现它驳倒了存在于先前的和同时代的,法律体系中的阶级差异,例如，汉穆拉比法典。
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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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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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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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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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The anger here is directed against the superficial, the flashy, liturgies read by the Laudian priests, but I think it's also being directed at the lean and flashy songs that are being written by Milton's poetic contemporaries, his rival poets.
这里表现出的愤怒，很明显是针对，劳德式牧师们虚伪浮华的礼拜式，但我认为这也是针对这些本身很虚华,由弥尔顿同时代的诗人所写的颂歌。
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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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