It's one of the interesting and curious features of the Protestant mask, Comus,that this is a distinction that's never really observed or acknowledged. Virginity and chastity seem to be used often and kind of awkwardly, I think, interchangeably.

这是新教徒面具里一种有趣而不寻常的特征，《科玛斯》，这是一种永远,不会被发现或是承认的区别，我觉得童贞和贞节,似乎经常被笨拙的互换使用。

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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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