Then a hideous sound, like a hyena 's psychotic LAUGH.

然后传来一阵令人惊骇的叫声，就像鬣狗发疯似的笑声一般。

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At least since the eighteenth century, these lines have been singled out for their beauty and, considering that Milton is describing the hideous demons under Satan's control, the pastoral elegance of this little simile really catches us off guard.

至少从19世纪起，这些句子因为它们的美感经常被单列出来，并被认为是弥尔顿在描述撒旦控制下的可怕的恶魔,这个小比喻诗歌上的优雅,确实使我们毫无防备。

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Snyder draws more people into the evil: where postwar mythology has enabled the view of an honorable German Army independent of the hideous S.S., he makes it plain that the Wehrmacht, not the S.S., created the first death camps, where Soviet soldiers were crammed together in the open, behind barbed wire, and were starved standing up.

NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces

This culminated in 2005's hideous Supreme Court decision that effectively overturned the Constitution's proscriptions on seizing private property for private--but politically sanctioned--purposes.

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There is nothing freely chosen about the way our taxes are used to construct and maintain miles of roads and the rest of the car's hideous infrastructure.

ECONOMIST: The 20th century