Milton wants to write an epic that in some ways comes before, or prevents, the great epics of Homer and Virgil.

弥尔顿想写一首在某种程度上先于，荷马和维吉尔伟大史诗的史诗。

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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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This was a time when Hopkins led all American universities in the importing of important European scholars, and it was a place of remarkable intellectual ferment.

当时霍普金斯先于美国的其他大学,邀请重要的欧洲学者来讲学，那里也是有影响的思想动乱的源地。

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The right to property is a natural right in the sense that it is prepolitical.

财产权某种意义上可以说是,先于政治的自然权利。

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So the parts of the car existed prior to the existence of the car itself.

所以车的零部件,是先于车本身而存在的

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Nature precedes art and human artifice or human making.

自然先于艺术，人的技巧和人的形成。

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That's just the simple sequential sense of "first," the first that comes before second, third and fourth; but there's something more radical here than the ordinal or sequential sense of "first."

这只是“先“表示顺序的简单含义,先于第二，第三，第四的那个“先“，但这里,“先“除了表示顺序的意思外还有更激进的含义“

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Licensing, on the other hand, is an action that precedes censorship.

许可，是先于控制的。

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Yet, for all that, it didn't exist before my body began to exist.

然而它并不是先于我的存在

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But that doesn't mean that every part of my body existed before I was born, and that every part of my body will continue to exist after I die.

但是这并不意味着,组成我身体的所有部件都是先于我的存在,并不是每一个部件,都会在我死后依然存在

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As presumptuous as that desire is, to come before Homer or to come before Virgil, it's by no means the final sense, I think, of Milton's ambitious drive to be first. Milton invokes the same heavenly muse here who inspired Moses, that shepherd.

尽管想要先于荷马或维吉尔的雄心,很冒失，这却绝不是弥尔顿想要做第一，的壮志的终点，他在这里所写的,缪斯正是那个启示了牧羊人摩西的缪斯。

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Remember our concern isn't straightly speaking with the question did the soul exist before our birth, did the soul exist before our bodies, but rather is the soul is immortal.

记住我们关注的并非是,对以下问题之前的回答,即灵魂是否先于出生而存在，灵魂是否先于身体而存在，而是灵魂是否不朽。

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We know this. Milton has already indulged this fantasy of coming before something that's already happened. We recognize this desire to anticipate an already existing narrative, from what?

我们知道，弥尔顿先前就有让自己先于,已经发生的事情的渴望，这种参与到,已经发生的事情中的渴望可以从？

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Or in other words, nature precedes art.

换句话说，自然先于艺术。

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It means "to come before."

它的意思是“先于什么到来“

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