You have the image of the cutting off, the castration, of the power of generativity. All poetic potency, all power to assert oneself in the world, can be severed and that's it.

有阉割，切除繁殖能力的，的形象，诗人的所有能力，所有能居于世上的力量都可以被剥夺，就是这样。

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Milton lends a special horror, I think, to this image of a blind Fury, and I hope you will agree with those critics -- I didn't make this up - who find embedded in these lines something like a figurative intimation of castration.

弥尔顿给这个暴怒形象添加了特殊的恐怖色彩，我希望你们同意--这不是我编造的,-有评论家发现这几句字里行间,在暗喻阉割。

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And the answer is castration.

答案就是阉割。

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I don't think that the critics who see here an image of castration are just imagining it, because there is such a weird and such a persistent interest in the human body, and especially in the poet's body, throughout this poem - Milton's focus on the body, on the entire realm of the corporeal.

有评论家认为弥尔顿在这里是暗喻阉割不是,凭空想象出来的，因为贯穿《利西达斯》整首诗,都有一种奇怪的一直都存在的对于人体，尤其是对这诗人的身体的兴趣,-弥尔顿对人体，对整个物质世界的关注。

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