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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It's reasonable, I think, to invoke Dr. Johnson here, Samuel Johnson, who writes in his Life of Milton that Milton's unskillful allegory appears to be one of the greatest faults of the poem.

我认为在这引用塞缪尔·约翰逊的话是很合理的，他一生都在写关于弥尔顿的文章,他指出弥尔顿不熟练的寓言成为了这部诗的大败笔之一。

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