Milton is adamant throughout the epic in his insistent imagining Adam and Eve quite specifically as a married couple - and a married couple -- and this is important to Milton -- a married couple with an active sex life.

弥尔顿在他的叙事诗中坚定不移的认为,作为已婚的夫妇，亚当和夏娃,已婚的夫妇--这一点对弥尔顿来说很重要-,有频繁性生活的夫妇。

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