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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Now as it happens--this is a novel--as it happens, our hero looks rather like the other man.

小说中故事就这样发生了，我们的主角和另一个人长得很像。

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The military in the United States was a situation which brought together people who wouldn't otherwise have any contact and they liked each other.

美国军队,就是一个让很多人发生接触的地方,如果不是军队，这些人平常是没有接触的,而军队里的人都喜欢对方。

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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。

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You had--They had--They worked together for a common goal, the military supported bringing these people together, and they were brought together on an equal and fair footing.

他们为了一个共同目标而合作，军队是这些人发生接触的社会支持，他们的接触是处于一个平等公平的地位。

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