有人听见她威胁她先前的恋人。

She has been heard to make threats to her former lover.

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她先前的泰然自若已变为惊恐。

Her previous calm gave way to terror.

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她先前待他不好，这时候想弥补一下。

She tried to make up for her shabby treatment of him.

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Milton, of course, is instructing the muse to explain first, before she gets around to explaining anything else, what caused Adam and Eve to fall.

弥尔顿当然是在让缪斯先说，在她说其他事情之前，是什么让亚当夏娃堕落的。

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I'm going to give her amnesia and then I'm going to drive her crazy Shelly and make her think that she's Shelly.

我先给她洗脑，再把她逼疯,让她认为自己是。

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So why is that?

我们先想想她为什么要这样写？

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