Christianity began as a persecuted religion that ultimately captured the Roman empire only after centuries of hostility towards the Empire, towards Rome, towards the secular state in general.

基督教最初作为被迫害的宗教,最终征服了整个罗马帝国,而在此之前,它经过了数世纪,对帝王对罗马以及,对整个世俗世界的反抗

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I don't think that the critics who see here an image of castration are just imagining it, because there is such a weird and such a persistent interest in the human body, and especially in the poet's body, throughout this poem - Milton's focus on the body, on the entire realm of the corporeal.

有评论家认为弥尔顿在这里是暗喻阉割不是,凭空想象出来的，因为贯穿《利西达斯》整首诗,都有一种奇怪的一直都存在的对于人体，尤其是对这诗人的身体的兴趣,-弥尔顿对人体，对整个物质世界的关注。

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