So given the elevated status of men, it's all the more important that men should remain pure and chaste.

考虑到男人崇高的地位，男人要保持纯净与贞操就显得更重要了。

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So look at line 423 of Comus, where the elder brother explains that the chaste Lady can actually travel anywhere she pleases utterly unafraid.

我们来看《科玛斯》423行，大哥哥解释说,贞节的女士实际上可以毫不畏惧的到她愿意的任何地方旅行。

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Beyond this, his youth must be innocent of crime and chaste, his conduct irreproachable and his hands stainless.

通过这些，他的青春,将是贞洁的而不会充满犯罪，他的行为将是无可非难的，他的手将不会有任何污点。

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The chaste poet was unable to pass uninjured in that wild surrounding waste. This violence was so terrible that not even his mother, the muse Calliope, could save him.

这端正老实的诗人无法在这野蛮的进攻中,全身而退，巴克坎忒斯的暴行是如此可怕,就连俄耳甫斯的母亲，身为缪斯之一的克莱俄帕也救不了他。

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He kept himself solitary and chaste. He devoted himself to poetry.

他过着孤独朴素的生活，致力于诗歌创作。

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They could keep for themselves the prestigious title of "chaste" even though they were obviously performing an act that almost anyone in an earlier period would assume disqualified them from being called chaste.

他们可以为自己享有这有声望的“贞节“称号“,尽管很显然他们所表现的行为,几乎早期的任何人都会认为,那是没有资格被称为贞节的。

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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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I hope you remember from the Sixth Elegy, the Sexta Elegia, that we read a few classes ago that Milton had told his friend Charles Diodati ; that an aspiring epic poet should only drink water; ; two, should refrain from eating meat; and three, should keep his body chaste.

我希望你们还记得《Sexta，Elegia》的第六挽歌,我们前几课读的，讲弥尔顿跟他的朋友查尔斯说,一个有抱负的史诗诗人应该只记得喝水;,二，应该避免食肉;,三，应该保持自己身体的纯洁。

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