Orpheus had provided Milton with a paradigm of the poet, the poet whose discipline and whose abstinence nourished and strengthened his poetry.

俄耳甫斯在弥尔顿看来是诗人的模范,他严于律己，节制禁欲，让诗作更加出色。

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For both John of the book of Revelation and for John Milton, it's the superior male of the species that's been singled out for the glorious practice of sexual abstinence.

对约翰的《启示录》和弥尔顿来说，是男人在人类中的优越地位,让禁欲的实行被挑选出来了。

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The poem represents a kind of as does the short poem, "A Coat" represents a kind of ascetic move, an active imaginative and rhetorical stripping-down.

和短诗一件外套一样,这首诗代表了“,一种禁欲主义，主动的想象和对华丽辞藻的摆脱。

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This isn't sexual abstinence that the Lady's pointing to.

女士指向的并不是性禁欲。

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