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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