The treatises that he had written in favor of the right to divorce for reasons of incompatibility in the earlier 1640s had scandalized his contemporaries and had especially scandalized his Puritan contemporaries on the left.

这些他在17世纪40年代早期所写的因为不能,相互容忍而离婚的权力,让当代人感到厌恶和反感,尤其让当代清教徒的左派反感。

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The thought is that, there's a kind of incompatibility with being free and being determined.

以上的观点是,自由和被决定,这两者是不相容的

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A happy marriage for Milton was founded on a couple of like-minded opinions and values, - their ability to converse with one another -- and so this is why the notion of divorce for reasons of incompatibility is so important to Milton, because compatibility in marriage is the very essence of marriage.

对弥尔顿来说，一段幸福的婚姻是建立在,有着相似观点和价值基础的情侣间的，他们与彼此交谈的能力-,因此这就是为什么对弥尔顿来说离婚这一概念,无论如何都十分重要，因为和谐共处,是婚姻的精髓。

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