You could think of this as the poem's first -- by no means its last - its first act of poetic disobedience.

我们可以把这当做这首诗第一次--绝不可能是最后一次,-这首诗第一次违背诗歌规律。

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Their first act of defiance is punished harshly.

他们首次的违背受到了严厉的惩罚。

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Milton is alerting us to the significance of the word "first" in the very first line, in this wonderful act of violating the laws of iambic pentameter.

弥尔顿在第一句就促使我们注意到“,“初/先“一词的重要性,不惜违背了抑扬格五音步诗的格律。

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But he also obviously writes that we are beings with will and purpose who are uniquely guided by opinions, ideas, and doctrines and it is in many ways the first business of the sovereign to act as a moral reformer of ideas.

但他同时也写道,我们是有意志和目标的生物,是唯一由言论，思想和各种学说，所引导的物种,而这正是给君主作为思想道德改造者,的存在提供了可能性。

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In the first account in Genesis 1, The creation of human is clearly the climactic divine act: after this God can rest.

在《创世纪》第一章中的第一种描述，人类的创造是上帝最具神性的行为：,在此之后神便可安息。

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Also, it's only after their defiance of God's command that Adam and Eve first become aware of, and ashamed by, their nakedness, putting the sort of sexual awakening after the act of disobedience rather than at the same time or prior to.

同时，在亚当夏娃，违背了上帝的命令后,第一次为他们的赤身裸体，感到羞愧，他们的性觉醒，产生于违背上帝的意愿之后,而不是在他们被创造之初。

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