He would gladly have sacrificed them in order to keep the much more virtuous and pure Lycidas -a gruesome proposal, but it's a gruesome proposal that suggests a primitive desire for a quid pro quo.

他很乐意牺牲了他们,来维持更为纯洁纯粹的,这是一首令人毛骨悚然的提议,暗示着一种最原始的复仇的欲望。

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As the head of the true church, Peter's voicing here his disgust that the virtuous Edward King, soon to become a minister, had been lost at sea.

作为真我教会的首领，彼得声明了他对一度贞洁的爱德华金，即将成为一名牧师，失去自我的唾弃。

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Now you go to a Mexican restaurant and if you want to be virtuous you have the salad.

人们走进一家墨西哥餐馆,想吃的健康低热量些,于是选择了沙拉

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So that's a virtuous cycle.

所以是个良性循环。

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The very idea that a figure so virtuous could have been dealt such a tragic and early death strikes Milton, or Milton's speaker here, as the rankest injustice.

这么贞洁的一个人竟然会这么早,就如此悲惨的死去，这极端不公平使弥尔顿，或者是诗中的讲述者，震惊。

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Milton began writing his epic poem too late to celebrate a virtuous political realm.

弥尔顿写他的史诗的时候,要歌颂清明的政局已经为时过晚。

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