One can never come before something that, of course, has already happened, but this fiction of an impossible firstness is something that Milton is working very hard to accomplish here.

一个人绝不可能先于，已经发生的事情，但弥尔顿在这里就是要,努力达成这种不可能的先知。

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like someone dies and you only think of it as an emotional event,

对于某些人的逝去，你可将其视为是一个情绪化的事情，

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And it is a very scary tyke actually that transform yourself from somebody who would be blind to somebody who would be sighted.

实际上,如果你从一个失明的人,变成一个视正常的人也是件十分可怕的事情。

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According to the physicalist view, a person is just a body that can do all of those things: can reflect, can be rational, can communicate, can make plans, can fall in love, can write poetry.

根据物理主义的观点,人是一个可以做以下事情的肉体,可以思考,可以理性,可以与人交流,可以制定计划,可以彼此相爱,可以写诗

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This is part of the arrogance that is characteristic of the Ancient Greeks, but at the same time, and right away at the beginning we're getting to such a very Greek thing, a Greek characteristic.

这部分体现了古希腊人的特点,傲慢,但与此同时——,我们现在就要谈到到一个非常希腊式的事情,一个希腊人的特点——

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In each of these cases the figure who stands ab extra, from outside, is an observer, an observer looking in and interpreting the action before him and an observer in a position presumably to make some kind of moral judgment on the action taking place.

在每个例证中，处在明喻本身之外的人，都是一个观察者，一个,向内展望并且解说他眼前的进展的观察人,一个似乎是要对发生的事情作出某些道德评论的观察人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What both Derrida and de Man say about the difference when one thinks of language coming into being, from thinking about all those other things coming into being, is that language does not purport to stand outside of itself.

德里达和德曼都说的不同点,当一个人从其它所有事情的形成，想到语言的形成时，这个不同点是说语言并不会意图去站在它本身之外。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He says in The Bridge, he asks the bridge to lend a myth to God, and he suggests that this is something that every age must do because our names for God are always metaphors, poems, something imagined, acts of speech.

他在《桥》中写道，他请求大桥借与上帝一个神话，他暗示到有些事情是每个年纪的人都必须做的,因为我们给予上帝的名总是一些隐喻啊诗歌啊，一些想象的事物，对言辞的表演。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The "Do you ever" pattern is a really good way to find out more about what the other person has done.

Do you ever” 句型能进一步了解另一个人做过的事情。

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