It has to be a bigger distance, a broader abyss, and that's what Iser is working with in the passages I'm about to quote.

它必须是一个更大的距离，更宽的深渊，这就是伊瑟尔在我想引用的那些话里面所试图说明的。

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When Milton instructs his muse, "Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view," there's something more here than the primary sense of the word, which is just "first in sequence."

弥尔顿写到缪斯的时候，“请先说，天界和地狱深渊在您的眼中，一切都了如指掌“,这句中“先“除了它本身的意思“最先“之外，还有其他的含义“

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