10.Gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection are, on this ground, consistently recommended as the cardinal virtues of the sex; and, disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature, one writer has declared that it is masculine for a woman to be melancholy.
在这个基础上,温柔、温顺和像猎犬一样的感情一直被推荐为性别的主要美德;而且,一位作家无视自然的任意经济,宣称女人忧郁是阳刚之气。机翻