The first letters sent by Pony Express from California took ten days to reach Missouri.

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There is, in the first set of dialogues, a distinct hierarchy of characters, you might say, who we see later on express those distinctive features of the soul and the city.

在第一段对话中，可以明显地看出角色间的尊卑地位，你也可以说这些人,所表达出的独特性格,正是灵魂与城邦所具备。

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It's now exactly that power from which Milton has been excluded by virtue of his blindness -- light: "Hail holy Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born, / Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd?"

而是弥尔顿已经被失明剥夺的一种力量,圣光，你是上帝最初的产物，永恒的光束,我是否可以向你表达我无限的敬意“

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