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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There's also another transition that he's making, and this involves the subject of virginity: not a speechlessness, but his actual abstinence.

他还做了另一个转变，这涉及到童贞的话题：,不是哑口无言，而是他实际的节制。

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with the classical conceptions of moderation, of justice, of self-control over the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity.

与古早的节制，正义概念不相关,也与基督信仰美德的自制无关,更别提希望与博爱。

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Callicles tells Socrates "Philosophy is a pretty toy if one indulges in it with moderation at the right time of life.

他告诉苏格拉底,如果一个人在年轻时代,有节制地享受哲学的乐趣，那自然大有裨益。

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She explains that nature, of course, wants us to / "live according to her sober laws / and holy dictate of spare Temperance."

她解释说，自然当然希望我们,“根绝她审慎的法律/,和神圣的有关节制的规定来生活“

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Orpheus devotes himself to his beautiful poetry, and he keeps himself sexually abstinent.

俄耳甫斯致力于写优美的诗歌，在性方面保持节制。

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And what the Republic tries to do is to offer us strategies, maybe we might even call it a therapy, Thumos for dealing with thumos, for submitting it to the control of reason and helping us to achieve some level of balance, of self-control and moderation.

而《理想国》尝试做的是,提供我们策略，而我们甚至能称之为疗法，用以处理，让它接受理性的控制,并助我们达到某种程度的平衡，介于自控与节制之间。

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How then can we justify the ways of God to men? How can we justify the fact that the abstinent Orpheus, the virtuous Orpheus, ? was so brutally assaulted and without any aid from the higher powers?

如何证明上帝待人之法？，如何解释俄耳甫斯这样一个,节制欲望，贞洁自守的人竟会遭到如此残忍的谋害，却得不到任何更高力量的援助这样一个事实？

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In this description of the moderate and temperate enjoyment of nature, the Lady is giving us something like a Puritan economic theory.

在关于适度和有节制的享乐的描述中，这位女士给我们提出了类似清教徒的有利可图理论。

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