To write any kind of epic at all might very well seem to be embracing an inappropriately sensual paganism at the expense of the higher discipline of good, old-fashioned monotheistic Christianity.

不论你想写好任何形式的史诗,你都要接受一些不太恰当的异教信仰,违反一些基督教中好的教条，和过时的一神论思想。

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Now given this, the romance frame of Milton's Comus, - we're not surprised actually to see -- even though we don't see at the end her actually getting married, we're not surprised to see the Lady in this speech embracing the form of chastity that promises something like an eventual turn to marriage.

这样看来，弥尔顿《科玛斯》的传奇结构，我们实际上并不诧异看到-,虽然我们没有看到她最终结婚了，我们看到这个演说的女士,拥护承诺像是最终转向婚姻的贞节时,并不感到诧异。

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Or will the best regime be a large cosmopolitan ? order embracing all human beings " perhaps even a kind of universal League of Nations consisting of all free and equal men and women?

或者，最优的政体将会是一个,大型的国际秩序吗,拥抱全人类，或许是一种普遍性的“国联,结合了所有自由，平等的男女？

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The notion of embracing stillness.

即享受安静这一理念。

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