"It is a significant find within Sierra Leone because it has never happened before in Sierra Leone."

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One can never come before something that, of course, has already happened, but this fiction of an impossible firstness is something that Milton is working very hard to accomplish here.

一个人绝不可能先于，已经发生的事情，但弥尔顿在这里就是要,努力达成这种不可能的先知。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We know this. Milton has already indulged this fantasy of coming before something that's already happened. We recognize this desire to anticipate an already existing narrative, from what?

我们知道，弥尔顿先前就有让自己先于,已经发生的事情的渴望，这种参与到,已经发生的事情中的渴望可以从？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's not taking place in this life, so it has to have happened before.

既然不是这辈子发生的,那么就肯定是以前发生的

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Herbert Hoover as president understands as president that something terrible has happened, but fundamentally the policies in place are as those of ```and every president before, small federal government, and we see signs that the market began to correct itself.

赫伯特，胡佛作为总统,明白，作为总统,糟糕的事情发生了，但根本上政策,是和之前总统，小型联邦政府，我们看见迹象,市场开始自我修正。

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