Despite such major compromises and transformations later, I think that Satan's cynicism to God before the defeat of the rebel angels makes sense.

尽管后来做出了如此重大的妥协和转变，但我认为撒旦在叛乱天使战败前对上帝冷嘲热讽的行为还是有其道理的。

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But despite this enormous concession and this realization, Satan is still justified, I think, in his cynical demystification of God's behavior before the defeat of the rebel angels.

尽管后来做出了如此重大的妥协和转变，但我认为撒旦在叛乱天使战败前对上帝行为,冷嘲热讽的行为还是有其道理的。

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Satan and the rebel angels have been roundly defeated.

撒旦和叛乱天使们被彻底击败了。

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You'll want to think about why Milton seems so aggressively to invite the association of the failure of the just revolution of the Puritans, and of course that's how he would see it, with the failure of the unjust revolution of the rebel angels under the guidance of Satan.

弥尔顿如此迫切的将清教徒的正义革命之失败,与我们所认为的撒旦领导下的叛乱天使们的，非正义革命之失败联系在一起,我们会疑惑他为什么要这样做。

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