It's a literary genre that dates back to late classical Greece and which typically charts the trials and tribulations of a hero, in many cases the trials and tribulations of a virginal heroine.

它是一种文学流派，可以追溯到古典希腊时期,这种流派规划了一位英雄了考验和磨难，许多情况下是给一位童贞的女英雄的考验和磨难。

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As a virginal orator, should she choose to unleash her powers, she would have the power of an Orpheus moving dumb things to sympathize -- Orpheus being one of Milton's most prized mythological figures of the powerful poet.

作为一名处女演说家，如果她选择释放自己的力量，她应该会有像俄耳甫斯一样的力量,使哑的东西也受到感动而有同情心,俄耳甫斯是弥尔顿最为称赞的有权利的神话传说诗人。

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If Milton as a poet who had never really published anything significant thinks of himself as a virginal writer, then there's an important way in which Milton loses his virginity with his published version of Comus in 1637.

如果弥尔顿作为一个诗人,或者作为一个童贞情节的作家,从来没有出版过任何自我思考的重要作品，那么就有很重要的一点,弥尔顿在1637年出版的《Comus》中失去了童贞。

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The fact that the death here in Lycidas is the death of a young, virginal poet at the very outset of his career, as you can imagine, resonates in a lot of powerful ways.

利西达斯》中的死者是一个年轻，还未失童真，事业刚要起步的年轻人，可以想象，这与弥尔顿有很强烈的共鸣。

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She's a poet and she has an impeccable ear, but this fiercely virginal Lady has not up to this point even begun to develop her other sensory realms.

她是位诗人，有着完美的听觉，但是这位贞洁的女士直到此刻,也没有开始培养她的其他感官领域。

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