Milton's taking pains here, and he does this with very few other poems, to let us know precisely when it is that he's written it.

弥尔顿在这里极力想让我们，知道他确切的创作时间。

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But you shouldn't take the date that I give you, the traditional date, as being firm.

但是我所提供给你的日期历史久远,并不能当做确切的时间加以使用

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Well, maybe the answer is there's no particular time at all when I killed him But for all that, it's true that I killed him ? What makes it true that I killed him?

也许答案是,我什么时候杀死他根本没有确切的时间,尽管如此，我杀死他是真的,为什么我杀死他是真的？

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The work is not, in a sense, written simply as a sort of timeless philosophical treatise, but as a dramatic dialogue with a setting, a cast of characters and a firm location in time and place.

但本书的著作目的，不仅是,永恒的的哲学论述，更是戏剧性的对话，内含场景，人物,及一个确切时间与位置。

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The trouble is, you just don't know when that explosion took place, and since there are several periods in this general area that we're talking about now, in which something big happened, some great change takes place, it turns out different people want to have their explosion at different times.

问题是,你不了解火山爆发的,确切时间以及这种爆发,在这个区域又延续了很多个时期,这些时期发生了许多重大事件和重大变化,结果就是不同人对,火山爆发的时间推测各不相同

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