Who was written first, who copied whom,who used whom,and that sort of thing.

写得最早的是哪一卷，谁抄袭了谁，谁引用了谁诸如此类。

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During the same period when I was first teaching this course, a veritable six-foot shelf of diatribes against literary theory was being written in the public sphere.

我一开始教这门课的时候，文学理论遭到了,公开地谩骂。

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But there's an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that he had written.

但我有种非常强烈的感觉,弥尔顿好像还是想让人觉得,《圣诞清晨歌》才是他的第一首诗。

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Thomas Hobbes was the author of the first and, I believe, undoubtedly the greatest, work of political theory written in the English language.

托马斯·霍布斯是第一部，我相信，毫无疑问也是最伟大的一部，用英语写成的,政治学著作的作者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If you turn over, this is another letter to Ben Griffith written fairly shortly after this first one.

如果你们翻过来，这里还有另一封,给Ben，Griffith的信,紧接著第一封写的。

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Plato, who Popper accuses in a passionate, albeit not very well written book, accuses Plato of being the first to establish a kind of totalitarian dictatorship.

柏拉图在，Popper，充满激情，但写得不是很好的书中饱受指责，他指责柏拉图是第一位,建立类似极权独裁专政的人。

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There's also an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem and obviously this is a much more difficult feat wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that anyone had written.

我还有一种强烈的感觉,弥尔顿想让人觉得,显然这很困难,想使《圣诞清晨歌》看上去像,任何一个人写的第一首诗。

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