I think it's telling that this kind of creation is a failure; it cannot succeed in the confines of this novel.

我想这告诉我们这种创作是失败的;,它在这本小说的界限内无法成功。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

With her vision of the moderate and temperate enjoyment of nature's beauty, the Lady is sketching this new seventeenth-century ideal of married chastity: the ideal of the temperate, moderate indulgence in sexual pleasure, of course, within the sanctified confines of marriage.

对于自然物资合理适度,享用的先见之明，她是在为新17世纪描绘一个,婚姻贞节的理想，有关，性生活中适当放纵的理想，当然，那是在有神圣婚姻制约前提下的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选