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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There may be uncertainties of that nature but certainly not the uncertainties of early humans.

也许还有其他的不确定因素,但这绝不等同于早期人类的不确定因素

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No, I don't think we really know but it's definitely not an apple.

不，我认为我们并不知道，但它绝不是苹果。

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But I want to say, on Plato's behalf, no, it's not, on behalf of the argument, Socrates should never have concluded the argument with this odd qualifying phrase that the soul is indestructible or nearly so.

但是我想代表柏拉图说，不，是代表这个论证，苏格拉底绝不该,在这个结论里,加上这个奇怪的量的修饰词,灵魂几乎是不可摧毁的。

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He won't listen;he bowls ahead, and he discovers in the process the terrible,terrible truth, which is that by accident,by coincidence, not by intent that as a young man he killed his father and subsequently married his mother.

他充耳不闻,执迷不悟,随后他在不经意间,发现了极其可怕的事实,或是因为事故,或是因为巧合,总之绝不是故意的,他年少时曾经弑父,随即娶了自己的母亲

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