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The speech is proceeding rather smoothly and, I think, kind of explicably as the Lady defends the sun-clad power of chastity.
我认为演说进行的相当顺利，当女士维护贞节如太阳一般的力量时，听上去是可解释的。
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In this pamphlet, this prose treatise, Milton is looking back at this exuberant affection for the very idea of chastity that he had held in his youth.
在这个小册子散文论文中，弥尔顿正在回顾这个贞操观点,对年轻人产生的非凡影响。
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Now one of the entries in Milton's commonplace book that touches on the subject of chastity strikes me as a particularly charged one for its terrifying image of violence.
在弥尔顿那本书中有一个条目,涉及到贞洁的话题,深深震撼了我,它感情十分强烈，还有暴力成分。
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As we saw in the last lecture, the elder brother holds an entirely different theory of chastity, and of course, it's a lot more optimistic.
我们上一讲中看到,年长的哥哥对贞节有完全不同的看法，当然那是乐观许多的。
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Now you will remember that the mask Comus was everywhere well, the strangely intertwined questions of the power of chastity on the one hand and the power of poetry on the other.
你们应该记得，面具戏《科玛斯》处处都,一方面是贞洁的力量，一方面是诗歌的力量,这两股奇特的纠缠在一起的力量。
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And I think it's impossible not to see that when Milton substitutes the virtue charity with the far more circumscribed ideal of chastity.
而我认为当弥尔顿把更加局限的贞操去代替局限的仁爱时,这不可能读不出来,虽然贞洁更加局限。
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The actual morality of the kind of chastity that the Lady believes in, I think, raises a lot of questions about the clarity of the distinction being formed here between good and evil.
小姐信仰的贞洁道德观，我认为引出了很多关于,明确区分好和坏的形式的问题。
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Nonetheless, I think it's safe to say you see a gradual decline in the cultural idealization of virginity and a corresponding increase in the valuation of marriage in this new form of chastity that we can think of as married chastity.
然而我认为这么说还是比较保险,你们看到童贞理想化的逐渐下降趋势,而同时婚姻定位的逐渐上升,以这种新形式出现的贞节，我们可以看做是婚姻的贞节。
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and the always awkward subject of chastity.
通常是关于贞操这尴尬的主题。
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The "sacred rays of chastity" are going to be emanating from the chaste maiden and protecting her like some magical force-field, and actually will keep her safe from the physical assaults of a savage bandit or a mountaineer.
贞节发出的神圣光芒“将要,从这贞节的修女身上发出并像某种神奇的力量一样保护她，而事实上还会保护她，使她不受来自,野蛮土匪或是登山者的身体袭击。
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And there's every indication that -- and I mentioned before, of course -- there's every indication that a lot of these early works bespeak something like a serious interest in the ideal of a lifelong state of chastity.
有各种各样的暗示--当然我之前也提到过，有各种各样的暗示表明大部分早期作品,都显现出一种重要的兴趣,有关于保持终生贞洁的观点。
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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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I can only imagine though, at this point in the semester, what will become Milton's eventual championing of marriage is pretty hard to imagine, in part because we're just devoting our second class to a literary work given almost entirely to the virtue of chastity.
然而我只能认为，在学期的这个时候，什么将成为弥尔顿婚姻的最终捍卫者,一定难以想象，一部分是因为,我们的第二节课一直在讨论,关于贞洁的美德的作品。
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He dismisses his brother's entirely practical argument, because for him chastity is a lot more than a simple exercise of sexual abstinence.
他推翻了他弟弟所有实际的论点，因为对他来说,贞节不仅仅是简单的禁止性欲。
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And the figure of the poetic rewards for chastity continues to surface throughout Milton's early works.
同时，因为操守贞洁而受到诗意赞美的人,贯穿了弥尔顿的早期作品。
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And, as I mentioned a moment ago, we will return to this question of what has been interestingly called the young Milton's "chastity fetish."
正如我刚才提到的，我们回到这个,被风趣的称为,年轻弥尔顿的“贞洁崇拜“的问题上来“
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There are disagreements even among Puritans about which state, virginity or married chastity, is the superior one in the eyes of God.
甚至清教徒们都执不同意见,关于到底童贞还是贞节，才是上帝看来更优良的状态。
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We have to assume that the Lady is resisting Comus' advances because she has before her the higher ideal of married chastity.
我们要假设女士在抵制科玛斯的先进发展,因为在她之前就有了有关婚姻贞节的更崇高的理想。
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He manages to discard that youthful, that uncouth, affection for chastity that had been such a part of his imagination, and he marries a young woman named Mary Powell.
他抛弃了那个年少无知，粗鄙的，对于纯洁的热爱，这曾是他想象的一部分，并且他和一个名为玛丽鲍威尔的女人结婚了。
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Now one of the moments in which this tension between virginity and chastity seems to be most pronounced is in the encounter between Comus and the Lady that we looked at in the last class.
在紧张状态中有一个时刻,涉及童贞和贞节，似乎最为明显,那就是我们上节课看到的,科玛斯和那位女士的相遇。
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- Up to this point -- and some of you may have felt this -- I have been throwing the word chastity around a little promiscuously.
直到现在--也许有些人已经感觉到了-,我使用贞节这个词有点混乱无章法。
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But look at the end of the passage that I've just read, a few lines down. The doctrine that the Lady wishes to advance suddenly seems so absolutely not to be a doctrine of married chastity.
但是看一下我刚刚读到的文章结尾，下面的几行，女士希望改进的交教义,突然看上去那么绝对，不再是婚姻贞节的教义。
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First, though, I need to say a couple of words about the word chastity as I've been using it throughout the discussion so far of Comusboth today and Monday.
首先我要就贞节这个词说几句,鉴于我在今天和周一课上有关《科玛斯》的,讨论中一直在使用这个词。
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It's in light of this ongoing cultural tension in the period that, I think, we can understand some of the strange confusions concerning chastity that we find in the poem that we're looking at.
根据那年代持续的文化紧张状态，我认为我们可以理解那些,在诗中读到的涉及贞节的困惑。
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Charity, or what he seems to have been thinking of as the selflessness of Christian love, is a virtue generous and capacious enough to encompass all of the others but faith, hope and chastity? "And the greatest of these is chastity"?
仁爱，或者,他认为的基督教无私的爱，是一种足够宽广，能够涵盖其他美德的美德,但是，信念，希望，贞操？最重要的是贞操？
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The lapse makes a certain kind of sense, I think, because it's virginity and not married chastity that the Lady imagines will allow her to demonstrate such a remarkable show of rhetorical strength.
我认为这一疏忽是有一定意义的，因为是女士想象的童贞,而并非婚姻贞节使得她,展现出如此强大的话语权。
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The power that the Lady claims for herself as a virgin is titanic, and it allows us to understand, I think, why she has slipped from her discussion of married chastity - to this new discussion of what seems to be -- or what she claims is -- virginity.
女士宣称作为一个处女所拥有的力量是巨大的，那让我们明白，为什么她从关于婚姻贞节的讨论,转到这个新的讨论-,看上去--或者是她所说的--童贞。
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