When Milton instructs his muse, "Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view," there's something more here than the primary sense of the word, which is just "first in sequence."

弥尔顿写到缪斯的时候，“请先说，天界和地狱深渊在您的眼中，一切都了如指掌“,这句中“先“除了它本身的意思“最先“之外，还有其他的含义“

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He is determined to make sense of those four numbers in some kind of a sequence, and this is what he came up with finally.

他决定要搞清楚这四个数字,在某些序列中的意思，这也是他最后提出来的。

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A sequence of chords that sound good together, kind of make sense together; we could say that sort of march along in a purposeful fashion.

放到一起好听的一组和弦，在一起有意义的和弦，我们也可以把它说成一组和弦有目的的行进。

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