What kind of knowledge, if any, can be had from the shattering experiences of revolution or rape, those models of history that I proposed last time?

什么知识能从我上次讲到的,历史形式的的粉碎性的经验里，比如革命或者强奸里获得？

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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。

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