Now one of the entries in Milton's commonplace book that touches on the subject of chastity strikes me as a particularly charged one for its terrifying image of violence.

在弥尔顿那本书中有一个条目,涉及到贞洁的话题,深深震撼了我,它感情十分强烈，还有暴力成分。

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So Saint Peter concludes with -- it goes on, and he concludes with a couplet that is as terrifying in its threat of finality as it is for me utterly baffling in its significance.

因此圣彼得以一句如同这首诗结尾的威胁般,可怕的对句作了总结,我很难读出这句话的重要性。

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- And we could never do this-- and one could never do this experiment today but let me go through it with you and you'll apologize for its--some of its qualities.

我们不能再-,这种实验，如今再不能做了,我给你们从头至尾讲一下,因为实验中性别歧视的原因，我再次道歉。

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And its opposition seems to me to be all together noble for know well men of Athens if I had long ago attempted to be politically active I would long ago have perished and I would benefited neither you nor myself. Now do not be vexed with me when I speak the truth.

而这样的违背在我看起来很高尚,因为可以彻底了解雅典人,如果很早之前,就试图活跃于政治的话,我早就没命了,也就无法造福你们或我自己,不要因为我说出真相而恼火。

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For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

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