delegation who met with the elder Castro - told reporters in Washington Tuesday that, in the nearly two-hour meeting, she has found the 82-year-old Fidel Castro "healthy,energetic and clear-thinking."

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In Lycidas, Milton looks back at the Elder Brother's theodicy, and it's almost as if he's attempting to test its validity.

在这首诗中，弥尔顿回顾了《科玛斯》中哥哥的斯奥迪斯，似乎是在验证斯奥迪斯正确与否。

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You can figure Milton asking in this poem Lycidas if it's true: is it true what the Elder Brother said, ? that virtue is always rewarded and evil punished?

可以看出在《利西达斯》中弥尔顿是在问：,《科玛斯》中哥哥所说的，善有善报恶有恶报是真的么？

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He chooses Jacob, a liar and a cheat in his early life, over the elder Esau.

上帝选择了雅各布，他年轻时是个说谎者，骗子，而没选择哥哥以扫。

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As we saw in the last lecture, the elder brother holds an entirely different theory of chastity, and of course, it's a lot more optimistic.

我们上一讲中看到,年长的哥哥对贞节有完全不同的看法，当然那是乐观许多的。

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The position that Milton -- this is how I like to read it - the position that Milton would like to be able to take on this question of virtue's reward is formulated by the Elder Brother in Comus.

弥尔顿的立场--我下面要读,-弥尔顿关于贞操的报偿这一问题的立场,通过《科玛斯》中的哥哥这一角色表达出来。

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The Elder Brother has obviously upped the ante in the mask's overvaluation of virginity.

很显然,大哥提高了面具中高估贞操的赌注。

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And Milton, or the Elder Brother here, is clearly thinking of Revelation 14, in which it's only the pure spirit or the virgin -- that can even begin to hear the new song being sung before the throne of God.

弥尔顿，或者大哥，显然说的是《启示录》第14章的内容，那里说只有纯净的精神或有童贞,才可以听到在上帝面前唱的新歌。

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It would seem that the Elder Brother and his sister were way too optimistic in their assessment of the protected status of the virtuous poet and the protected status of the virgin, the favored role of the poet. Virginity does nothing.

似乎《科玛斯》中哥哥和他的妹妹认为,贞洁的诗人，未失童真的诗人自然会受到保护,的想法太过乐观了，贞洁无能为力。

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Now it's the Elder Brother in the mask who offers us an even more, if you can imagine it, even more magnified view of the virtue of virginity The Lady herself had argued that heaven would send a glistering guardian down to defend her physical, her bodily -- integrity or physical innocence.

现在是面具里的哥哥，如果你能想象，是他给我们提供了对贞操更加赞美的看法,小姐自己也认为,上帝会派遣一个护卫来保护她，保护身体的完整或肉体上的无罪。

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