The romance heroine is often threatened with rape, but by her cleverness or by good luck or a concatenation of forces ; she can always invariably avert that tragedy; and by the end of the work she can present herself to her future husband as a virgin.

这位传奇的女英雄总是被强奸所威胁，但是多亏了她的机敏，或是走好运，或是一连串的军队暴力,她总是能避免悲剧;,在作品的最终,她呈现在未来丈夫面前的仍是一个处女。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Could it be that the hidden throb I stole from them did not affect their future? I had possessed her, and she never knew it.

它是不是我从那些人物那获取隐藏的脉搏,我为她着迷，她并不知晓。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the condition where she was made to look attractive but gave you bad feedback about yourself, often the subjects in that condition would look for an opportunity to interact with her in the future, obviously to try to prove that her evaluation was wrong.

当一个漂亮女人,对自己评价不好时，这种条件下的人,常常会以后寻找机会,和她相处，明显想证明她的判断是错的。

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