The idea of democracy is giving everybody equal chance, not necessarily equal voice.

民主的含义是给于每个人平等的机遇，不一定是同等的话语权。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Then, as one who'd waited precisely for her maledict voice to hoarsen, I outshouted her in these terms: "Therefore come to bed, my equal, uncursing, uncursed!"

我瞅准时机，等她的咒骂声一减弱,我大吼起来，盖过了她的声音：,你不是要平等吗，那就床上见，别老跟我念咒了“

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But the hymn at the same time is something like the process, the process by which Milton is attempting to purge and cleanse his poetic voice and make it a voice that will actually be equal to the extraordinary ambition that he has for it.

但颂歌同时又像一个过程，在这个过程中弥尔顿尝试净化,他诗歌的语言，把它变的,像他当初想的那样非同寻常,人人都渴望得到。

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