You can think of it as this reaction to the problem of lateness that accounts for one of the invocation's most distinctive features, and that's the repetition of the word "first."

你们可以把弥尔顿在这首诗中对“晚“的回应,当做这首诗最明显的特征之一，这表现在他反复使用“初/先“一词上“

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In some ways the most distinctive literature America has is a kind of Southern literature, white and black.

在某种程度上,美国最有特点的文学,就是一种南方文学,关于白人和黑人

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