They said the larvae nearly always chose to follow the sound as they sought a place to call home.

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In the first place, a mask is nearly always occasional.

首先，这个节目几乎是偶然的。

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It's nearly always commissioned by the king to be performed at court before a private audience of select nobility, it's commissioned by an aristocratic family to be performed at the aristocratic family's estate to honor or to celebrate a specific occasion.

它几乎是由国王指派,去庭院表演给一部分贵族的，它是由一个贵族家庭指派,在贵族家族的房子里表演,是去庆祝一个特定场合的。

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There's always, and I think this is nearly invariable -there's an element in Milton's similes that stands outside the framework of the basic comparison.

有一点是时常出现并且几乎不变的,-就是在弥尔顿的明喻中始终有一个元素,是从基本的对比框架中脱颖而出的。

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