Like the furious Bacchae, the furious Atropos emasculates the man who dares to aspire to poetic greatness.

正如愤怒的酒神女伴一样，愤怒的特洛波斯阉割了,这希冀成为伟大诗人的人。

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Murdoch claims he will not alter the editorial content of The Wall Street Journal.

默多克声称不会阉割,《华尔街日报》的评论

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You have the image of the cutting off, the castration, of the power of generativity. All poetic potency, all power to assert oneself in the world, can be severed and that's it.

有阉割，切除繁殖能力的，的形象，诗人的所有能力，所有能居于世上的力量都可以被剥夺，就是这样。

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I don't think that the critics who see here an image of castration are just imagining it, because there is such a weird and such a persistent interest in the human body, and especially in the poet's body, throughout this poem - Milton's focus on the body, on the entire realm of the corporeal.

有评论家认为弥尔顿在这里是暗喻阉割不是,凭空想象出来的，因为贯穿《利西达斯》整首诗,都有一种奇怪的一直都存在的对于人体，尤其是对这诗人的身体的兴趣,-弥尔顿对人体，对整个物质世界的关注。

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