He's the very voice of traditional wisdom for some, as he was for Lady Mary Chudleigh.
对于一些人来说,正如对玛丽·恰德莱夫人,弥尔顿是传统智慧的发言人。
Like Lady Mary Chudleigh, Woolf holds up Milton as a powerful authority.
如同玛丽·恰德莱夫人,伍尔夫把弥尔顿当成有力的权威。
It's been said that to quote anybody is necessarily to misrepresent him, and this fact is obviously a very good thing for Lady Mary Chudleigh since Milton would certainly not himself have wanted to suggest that women are superior to men.
有这样一种说法,引用任何人的话都难免曲解其原意,很显然这对玛丽·恰德莱夫人的论证是有利的,因为弥尔顿的原意绝对不可能是说,女人的地位要高于男人。
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