It's as if the commodity of the bride is deemed truly valuable only if it can be guaranteed pure and untouched.

这就好像新娘这件商品,只有在完全的纯净没有动过才是有真正价值的。

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He did not ever imagine the abandonment of the table of ranks, which set everybody in a hierarchy, not for a minute-- we're talking about the end of the end of the 17th and 18th century.

他绝不会想要抛弃一个,把每个人都划分阶层的等级社会,从来没有动过这个念头,我们说的是在十七世纪末到十八世纪初

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