So true poetry for Milton, true prophetic poetry, the kind of song that can actually vie with the most perfect music of the spheres, is only accessible, and presumably only producible, by the virgin.

对于弥尔顿来说真正的诗，真正的预言诗,真正能和天国最棒的音乐竞争的音乐，大概只能由拥有童贞的人来创作。

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He believes that a virgin like the Lady is secure or safe from the violent attacks imagined by his younger brother.

他认为像那位女士那样的处女，在他弟弟想象的,暴力袭击中是很安全的。

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The romance heroine is often threatened with rape, but by her cleverness or by good luck or a concatenation of forces ; she can always invariably avert that tragedy; and by the end of the work she can present herself to her future husband as a virgin.

这位传奇的女英雄总是被强奸所威胁，但是多亏了她的机敏，或是走好运，或是一连串的军队暴力,她总是能避免悲剧;,在作品的最终,她呈现在未来丈夫面前的仍是一个处女。

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