He would gladly have sacrificed them in order to keep the much more virtuous and pure Lycidas -a gruesome proposal, but it's a gruesome proposal that suggests a primitive desire for a quid pro quo.

他很乐意牺牲了他们,来维持更为纯洁纯粹的,这是一首令人毛骨悚然的提议,暗示着一种最原始的复仇的欲望。

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But remember, now he knows what he's doing and so he really wasn't gambling his wife-- he was really a very pure and honorable man.

不过要记住,现在他知道自己在做什么,所以他并不是真的要拿妻子来冒险,他真的是个很纯洁并且值得尊敬的人

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