Clearly, this is something that he wants to believe or that he needs to believe, but there does seem to be evidence that at least at this early point in Milton's life he's intending to remain sexually abstinent forever.

很显然，这些都是他想去相信的,或者他需要相信的，但好像有证据证明至少有一点很清楚,弥尔顿一生都想做一个禁欲者。

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Milton -- this will be the working assumption that I bring to my reading of this poem -Milton sets out to prove something in Lycidas, and the most important thing that he proves is his control over the learning that he has accumulated.

弥尔顿-这是我个人对于诗歌的理解之中,极为有益的一点假设,弥尔顿旨在在里证明一些事情，他所要证明的最重要一点在于,其自身对于他所学所积累的一种完全的掌控。

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