milton, like so many of his contemporaries, kept a commonplace book and, as you can imagine, he kept it for the most part in latin.
和许多同代的人一样,弥尔顿,写一本普通的书,正如你所想象的,他所写那本书大部分是拉丁文。
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。
i think there」s a connection here between the image from the commonplace book and the treatment in milton's mask of this strangely conjoint phenomenon of virginity and speechlessness.