They talk a lot, as Sarah said, they talk a lot about abstract questions, and this puts the meaning of the story in that abstract register. Is it a love story, or is it a religious story, a mystifying story?

他们谈论了很多，如萨拉所说，他们谈论了很多,很抽象的问题，这使得这个故事,变得抽象了，这是个爱情故事吗，有的或者是个宗教故事，还是个神秘故事呢？

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I'm thinking of the general problem of the abstraction of virtue, an abstract notion of virtue. Think of all the questions that all of us at some point or other tend to associate with virtue.

我在思考贞操这个抽象概念，贞操这一抽象的概念，想想所有那些,我们时不时的会由贞操想到的问题。

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