There's also another transition that he's making, and this involves the subject of virginity: not a speechlessness, but his actual abstinence.

他还做了另一个转变，这涉及到童贞的话题：，不是哑口无言，而是他实际的节制。

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I think there's a connection here between the image from the commonplace book and the treatment in Milton's mask of this strangely conjoint phenomenon of virginity and speechlessness.

我认为，笔记书中的形象，和弥尔顿《面具》中有关童贞和无语这一共同现象，是有联系的。

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There's also another transition that he's making, and this involves the subject of virginity: not a speechlessness, but his actual abstinence.

他还做了另一个转变，这涉及到童贞的话题：,不是哑口无言，而是他实际的节制。

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I think there's a connection here between the image from the commonplace book and the treatment in Milton's mask of this strangely conjoint phenomenon of virginity and speechlessness.

我认为,笔记书中的形象,和弥尔顿《面具》中有关童贞和无语这一共同现象,是有联系的。

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In a little scene from the early English history that Milton had selected from his reading, you have an image of silencing, of a horrifying and unredeemable speechlessness that is so closely connected to virginity.

早期英国文学中的一个小场景,那是弥尔顿从他的阅读中选出的，你们，对于可怕的不可挽回的哑口无言有种寂静感,这与童贞紧密相连。

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It is, as he puts it, a case of a woman who - after a lifetime of virtual speechlessness - has "verbal diarrhoea".

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