But the Lady is hoarding that natural gift just as that unprofitable servant had buried his talent in the earth.

但小姐隐藏了大自然的礼物,就好像仆人在世上埋没了他的才华。

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The Lady had claimed for herself a remarkable set of powers, but she wasn't yet ready to use them.

女士要求给她自己一系列权力，但是她并未做好准备使用这些权力。

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The name comes from the play by George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion, and the quote here is "The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves but how she's treated.

这个名字来源于一出戏剧,萧伯纳写的《卖花女》,我引用里面的一句话,“淑女与卖花女之间的区别,并不在于她的举止，而在于别人是否待她如淑女。

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But these virtues, however great, I think, are also associated in the mask with the Lady's petrifaction, her fixation on the seat that Comus has fashioned for her.

但是我认为，无论美德是多么高尚，也是与女士在《面具》中的目瞪口呆，以及科玛斯为其设计的固定座椅相联系的。

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As the Lady labors to preserve her virginity, she conjures a menacing but nonetheless sensual image of "airy tongues that syllable men's names."

因为小姐努力地保持她的童贞，她联想到了一个威胁的但感官的画面,飘忽的声音在叫男人的名字“

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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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Alice is fifteen years old at the time, not an entirely unreasonable age for an actress or an amateur actress playing the maidenly but strong-headed Lady of Milton's mask.

当时爱丽丝，15岁，她的年龄完全不适合演弥尔顿所描绘的,沉稳而意志坚强的小姐。

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But it's, of course, the Lady who's the heroine of this piece.

但当然，小姐才是这部作品的主角。

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He wants to keep anticipating producing the great speech, ; which is exactly what the Lady has been doing; but on the other hand Milton's possessed of a competing desire to speak and to speak now -- to publish, to succeed, to consummate his talents.

他想要一直预先准备好伟大的演说，这也正是女士一直在做的;,但是另一方面，弥尔顿也有强烈矛盾地的欲望想要,演说--立即演说，想要出版，成功，最大程度发挥他的才能。

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But the standoff between Milton and Shakespeare, much like the standoff between Comus and the Lady, is not as easily resolved as it might seem to be.

但弥尔顿和莎士比亚之间的对峙，更像Comus和小姐之间的对峙，是不易解决的，因为它看起来如此。

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Think about that. All this, Comus explains : Nay Lady, sit; if I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chained up in Alabaster, And you a statue; or as Daphne was, Root-bound that fled Apollo.

试想一下，所以这一切，Comus解释到：,小姐，坐，但如果我挥舞这个棒子，你的所有神经都束缚在这个大理岩上了，你是一尊雕像，或像月桂树那样，被绑在根上逃往阿波罗。

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