Now, it's Milton's annotators who tell us that the word prevent means "to come before, to anticipate," and on some level it obviously means that and that goes without question.

弥尔顿的注解告诉我们阻止一词的含义,“在某人之前到达，预期“,从某种程度上说它就是那个意思，这毫无疑问。

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That sounds funny, but in a sense, that is--we have to define the sense in which it's irrelevant.

听起来很有意思,但从某种意义上讲,我们必须说清楚不相关性的含义

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