The crucial point here for us is that immortality means not just living a very long time or even an extraordinarily long time, but literally living forever.

这里至关重要的一点是永生,不仅意味着生存很长一段时间,甚至极其漫长的一段时间，而是指永远生存下去。

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But at the time period that we are examining, the period in which he writes Comus, the early 1630s, Milton seems very much interested in remaining virginal forever, avoiding even the sanctioned loss of virginity which is the state of marriage.

但在我们研究这段时期时，17世纪30年代初他写《Comus》的时期，弥尔顿似乎还对永远保持童贞非常感兴趣，甚至避开支持婚姻所必须经历的一个阶段,失去童贞。

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