Milton can't allow himself to embrace the wonderful fiction, : that beautiful fiction that had been espoused by the Elder Brother: the fantasy that virgins don't even die, that their bodies are simply reconstituted somehow as angelic spirits.

弥尔顿实在无法认同《科玛斯》中哥哥，的美好奇妙的幻想：,这仅仅是虚幻而已，处子不会死去，他们的身体,会被重构，成为天国里的灵魂。

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We want to free ourselves from the distractions of the body, but we don't want the body to die, because when the body dies the soul dies as well.

我们想把自己从肉体的干扰中解放出来,但是我们不能让肉体死亡,因为当肉体死去的时,灵魂也会同样消亡

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Even if we are dualists, as we've noticed before even if the soul is something different from the body it could still be the case, logically speaking, that if the body gets destroyed the soul gets destroyed as well.

就像以前一样,即使我们是二元论者,认为灵魂是不同于肉体的,但从逻辑上来说,仍然可能出现,假如肉体死去,灵魂也随之消亡的情况

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