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 almost as if -- could this be? It's almost as if Milton wants to narrate the events of the Creation and the Fall with the same kind of firstness that Moses did.

这几乎是--可能么？，弥尔顿几乎是想,像摩西一样第一次讲述,创世纪和人类的堕落。

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