And like cities, this imaginative and exciting art will continue to change and grow.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

This is why he's continually placing the imaginative origin of the poem back to the very dawn of time, perhaps even back before if you can imagine such a time -- before the very dawn of time.

这就是为什么弥尔顿总是试图把想象中的这首诗的起源,推至时间开始的时候，甚至更早,-如果你们能想象这样一个时间--在时间开始之前。

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So if the landscape invites him to grow as an imaginative person, the social world he lives in, this episode signals to us immediately, will never live up to that imagination.

假如生活氛围使他,成为一个充满想像力的人，那么他所处的社会就是这一时期，这会让我们马上感到，那种想象永不可能成真。

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