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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But it's those kinds of questions that, there's a little bit of spark, there's a little bit of a powerful force and there's just a lot of hard work to get from here to there.

但是问题是，那时候已经产生了一些火花，一些外在动力,只不过达成目标还需要大量的艰苦工作。

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And we talked about periodicity and properties, so let's go and take a look at what we have and see if we can reconcile this.

现在我们讲一下周期性，我们先看一下我们已经掌握的知识,看看能不能和我们要讲的达成一致。

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I'm going to the Russian Stabilization Fund in-- I think I've got an arrangement to meet with them in Moscow in March-- that would be during the semester.

我还要去俄罗斯平准基金一趟-,我想我跟他们已经就,三月在莫斯科会面达成了共识-,就是这个学期的事情。

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If you look at the argument the poor need the money more, at no point in that argument do you contradict the fact that we've extrapolated from, agreed upon principles that people own themselves.

如果你仔细想想穷人更需要钱这个论据，该论据没有任何论点,能反驳我们已经推定的事实，即已达成共识的，人人自主原则。

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