You can think of it as this reaction to the problem of lateness that accounts for one of the invocation's most distinctive features, and that's the repetition of the word "first."

你们可以把弥尔顿在这首诗中对“晚“的回应,当做这首诗最明显的特征之一，这表现在他反复使用“初/先“一词上“

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And we get to go home early, you know, six o'clock, seven o'clock, latest, you know.

我们还可以早回家，六点，最晚七点。

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There was a sense that she'll never be from the village, she's from somewhere else; but, sometime between 1750 and maybe 1990 most-- almost everybody in France began seeing themselves as French.

就是有一种感觉,她从来也不是本村人,她是外地来的,但是,在1750年到最晚1990年之间的某段时间,基本上所有在法国的人都认为自己是法国人

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