There's also another transition that he's making, and this involves the subject of virginity: not a speechlessness, but his actual abstinence.

他还做了另一个转变，这涉及到童贞的话题：，不是哑口无言，而是他实际的节制。

I think there's a connection here between the image from the commonplace book and the treatment in Milton's mask of this strangely conjoint phenomenon of virginity and speechlessness.

我认为，笔记书中的形象，和弥尔顿《面具》中有关童贞和无语这一共同现象，是有联系的。

There's also another transition that he's making, and this involves the subject of virginity: not a speechlessness, but his actual abstinence.

他还做了另一个转变，这涉及到童贞的话题：,不是哑口无言，而是他实际的节制。

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I think there's a connection here between the image from the commonplace book and the treatment in Milton's mask of this strangely conjoint phenomenon of virginity and speechlessness.

我认为,笔记书中的形象,和弥尔顿《面具》中有关童贞和无语这一共同现象,是有联系的。

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In a little scene from the early English history that Milton had selected from his reading, you have an image of silencing, of a horrifying and unredeemable speechlessness that is so closely connected to virginity.

早期英国文学中的一个小场景,那是弥尔顿从他的阅读中选出的，你们，对于可怕的不可挽回的哑口无言有种寂静感,这与童贞紧密相连。

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It is, as he puts it, a case of a woman who - after a lifetime of virtual speechlessness - has "verbal diarrhoea".

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