The chapter begins with a temporal clause which is unfortunately often translated "In the beginning," which implies that what follows is going to give you an ultimate account of the origins of the universe.

它以时间状语开篇,但不幸的是，它常被翻译为“开始的时候“,这暗示着接下来它将会为你展示,大量关于宇宙起源的描述。

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And there's a self-consciousness about the temporal strangeness of this poem that leads, I think, to its crisis moment. Look at stanza sixteen.

他自己也意识到,诗歌暂时性的古怪会导致，危机的到来，看第六段。

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That's why I started with a spacial example: the train and move to the temporal example: the car.

所以今天一开始,我举出了特殊的例子：火车,现在又举例：汽车。

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Our story opens with a temporal clause: "When on high," "when God began creating"; We have a wind that sweeps over chaotic waters, Just like the wind of Marduk released into the face of Tiamat, And the Hebrew term is particularly fascinating.

我们的故事以时间状语开始：,“当在天国时““上帝开始创世“,我们读到了掠过恶水的气流，就像Marduk当Tiamat的面所释放的气流，希伯来语的说法尤其迷人。

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We, of course, know as we read the prelude to this poem that this is a work consumed with questions of temporal disjunction, with that problem of temporal discontinuity.

当然我们理解这首诗的序曲,这首诗里有许多暂时脱节，还有暂时的不连续的问题。

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Now I am mentioning these dates here because the dates on which Milton wrote and published his poems, the temporal sequence of these publications, have a peculiar and particular importance for the poet.

我为什么要在这里提到这些日期,因为创作和出版诗的日期，和当时的顺序，对一个诗人有特殊的重要性。

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This is a simile that Stanley Fish brilliantly describes ; as central to a certain temporal procedure common in Milton's verse; Fish is interested in the temporal process of reading in general.

这被斯坦利费什独具匠心地形容为,弥尔顿诗中极为常见的时间步骤的核心;,费什对总体上这首诗的时间顺序非常感兴趣。

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