Now I don't have to tell you that Milton has done a powerful violence to this parable in Matthew.
我不得不告诉你们弥尔顿在这里曲解了,马修寓言的原意。
May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away not to return.
别来个命运之神,故意曲解我,只成全我愿望的一半,把我卷了走。
He says,"There are many things in Paul's letters very difficult to understand. And some people twist them to their own destruction as they do other kinds of scripture."
他说“保罗的书信里有很多,难以理解之处,而有些人曲解它们,这是自取沉沦,正如他们对待其他圣典一样“
It's been said that to quote anybody is necessarily to misrepresent him, and this fact is obviously a very good thing for Lady Mary Chudleigh since Milton would certainly not himself have wanted to suggest that women are superior to men.
有这样一种说法,引用任何人的话都难免曲解其原意,很显然这对玛丽·恰德莱夫人的论证是有利的,因为弥尔顿的原意绝对不可能是说,女人的地位要高于男人。
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