Aristotle tells us that a plot has a beginning, a middle and an end.

亚里士多德告诉我们，故事都要有起因，经过，结果。

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A lot of the rigid moral distinctions that the poem has actually been working rather hard to establish are beginning to blur.

很多在诗中严格意义上的道德上的区别已经,变得日趋模糊。

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Who here has been making it since the beginning of the semester on under six hours a night?

谁从本学期开学到现在,每晚睡不到六小时的？

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Yeats has a long career, really beginning in the late nineteenth century.

叶芝有很长一段时间，其实是从19世纪后期开始。

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This is a question that has perplexed and divided readers of Plato almost from the beginning.

这个困惑,以及区隔柏拉图读者的问题,自始至今皆然。

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Duh!" of course, is our response, and yet at the same time we can't understand a degree of mystery in even so seemingly simple a pronouncement. A beginning, of course--well, it has to have a beginning.

我们肯定要说：“废话！这不是明摆着的么！“，但同时,我们并不能深刻理解这样一个看似浅显的观点,起因，当然啦，一个故事总要有个开头。

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They wouldn't have said that because it doesn't sound we want to think that we invented this here but it actually was a new invention in a way because the United States has a different philosophy which the United States has been committed since its beginning to federalism.

他们不会说,因为它听起来不像,这里我们希望大家把它想成我们自己的发明,但是事实上，它确实是一个新的发明,因为美国有一个不同的哲学,这个哲学是，美国力图从一开始就,使自己成为联邦制度国家。

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All Milton has at the beginning of his poetic career is the promise of greatness, the anticipation of a luminous body of English poetry.

弥尔顿在诗歌生涯开始的时候只有,上帝传达给他必将伟大的希望，和必将成为英语诗人中最耀眼的人物的预期。

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