It had begun to get dark, and Peter knew that it was time to go.

天开始黑了，彼得知道他该走了。

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The moment passed, and life on Train 4419 continued as it had begun.

时间慢慢过去，4419号列车的生活依旧继续。

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Work on it had begun before my sister left. The house was completed five months ago.

这栋房子在我姐姐离开之前就已动工了，是在5个月以前竣工的。

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It had begun to harm President Lyndon Johnson's popular and political support.

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Milton had begun the sentence not with calm, prophetic certainty about his divine vocation. He began it with a far more secular set of images, a set of images that comes from the world of business.

弥尔顿并不是以一种先知对他天职，的冷静确信开始写的，他以,更世俗的比喻开始,生意上的比喻。

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Milton corrects -- it's as if he's correcting the sense of monotony with which he had begun the poem, and he corrects that sense of monotony by rewriting that initial phrase.

弥尔顿纠正道-正如他纠正那种单调的枯燥感,他用诗歌的开头句进行了纠正，他还通过重写开头句来纠正那种枯燥感。

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