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Comus 英'kəuməs COCA¹⁵¹⁰²⁸BNC⁹⁷²³³⁺⁷ 基本例句 n.司酒宴之神⁵⁰;庆祝的神⁵⁰ It's the speeches of Comus far more than those of any other character that are filled with echoes and allusions to the great plays of Shakespeare. 和其他角色相比,是 Comus的讲话,有很多模仿和典故来自莎士比亚的伟大戏剧。 v.163.com 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。 v.163.com Comus She discusses what she would like to say in response to Comus, but she doesn't then go on significantly to say it. 她思考着她能说什么去回应,但她没有说下去。 v.163.com According to Comus, the Lady is an ill borrower. 据 Comus看来,小姐是一个冷酷的借用者。 v.163.com And so it's an understandable ploy on Milton's part that he needs to vilify Shakespeare by identifying that great poet, his older contemporary, with Comus. 所以就弥尔顿而言,是一个可理解的事,他需要通过认同那伟大的诗句来贬低莎士比亚,用 Comus来压倒比他年纪较大的同时代人。 v.163.com At times when we read Paradise Lost it seems almost as if Satan were quoting or alluding to Comus. 有时当我们读《失乐园》时,就好像看到 Satan在引用 Comus的话或影射他。 v.163.com I know we haven't gotten to Comus yet, but I'm trying to put this in to context. 我知道我们还没有讲到《 Comus》,但我试着把这个放在上下文中来讲。 v.163.com In Comus, the Lady had identified with Orpheus as she described to Comus what her speech about virginity would do if she were actually to deliver it. 在《科玛斯》中,女孩把自己当做俄耳甫斯,向科玛斯说她的关于贞洁的演说,将会有实际的作用。 v.163.com It's about eight years after Comus. 在《 Comus》成书8年之后。 v.163.com Now as I noted earlier, there's a difference between the two existing texts of Milton's Comus. 正如我之前提到的,弥尔顿《科玛斯》的现存两个版本间有差异。 v.163.com Now the Lady, it's been noted before, is never really able to respond to Comus' accusation of her hoarding. 现在小姐已经注意到,从来不能真正应对 Comus对她的指控。 v.163.com She doesn't end the mask stuck to Comus' chair. 她并未理会粘在科玛斯座椅上的面具。 v.163.com She doesn't spend her bodily wealth and fulfill the terms of nature's loan And so for Comus, the Lady is hoarding the natural asset of her physical beauty. 她不花费自己的身体财富和不履行自然的贷款条件,对于 Comus来说,小姐在囤积自然给她的美貌资产。 v.163.com She explains to Comus what would happen should she actually choose to break her silence, should she actually choose to unleash all of the rhetorical powers that she has pent up inside of her. 她向科玛斯解释,一旦她打破沉默将会发生些什么,一旦她真正选择揭开那些,禁锢在她内心许久的浮夸的力量。 v.163.com She would bring all of Comus' magic structures down around his head. 她将能解除科玛斯的所有魔力。 v.163.com The Lady in Milton's mask is placed in a similar predicament by the Shakespearean power of Comus. 弥尔顿面具里的小姐也同样处于这样的困境,在莎士比亚对 Comus的影响力下。 v.163.com The logic, the beauty, of Comus' rhetoric seems often to overpower the Lady's own, which is itself admittedly beautiful and powerful. 该逻辑,或者说美丽的修辞,压倒了小姐本身,是公认的美丽和强大。 v.163.com They forget to reverse Comus' wand when they rush in to his lair. 当他们冲到科玛斯居所的时候忘记改变他棒子的方向了。 v.163.com We have already encountered on some level the importance of the figure of eating to John Milton. Think of Comus. 我们已经在某种程度上见识到了,对于弥尔顿来说吃的形象的重要性,想想司酒宴之神。 v.163.com 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。 v.163.com With this accusation of the misuse of borrowed funds, we recognize the strange and, I think in this context, rather ill- fitting subtext behind Comus' seduction. 通过误用钱币的指责,在这个文本中,我们发现了 Comus其中的诡异,和其唆使背后的潜台词。 v.163.com Comus attempts to seduce the Lady, you'll remember, with something like an economic theory of natural beauty. 你们还记得吧,科玛斯试图色诱那位女士,用一套有利可图的自然美的理论。 v.163.com |