When Milton instructs his muse, "Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view," there's something more here than the primary sense of the word, which is just "first in sequence."

弥尔顿写到缪斯的时候，“请先说，天界和地狱深渊在您的眼中，一切都了如指掌“,这句中“先“除了它本身的意思“最先“之外，还有其他的含义“

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The question was: I said it seems plausible to say my soul is located, more or less, here because I seem to view the world from here.

这个问题是,我说过我的灵魂,极有可能存在于某个位置,至少我似乎能从这看到世界

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Now,we're in a bit of a pickle here,from the philosophical point of view.

从哲学角度来看，我们陷入了一个小困境。

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