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。

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It's important to understand that clearly something very strange has happened here.

清楚地理解这个很重要,一些很奇怪的东西发生在这里了。

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