首先，我们要种树。

First, we should plant trees.

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要理解这一点，我们首先需要看一看早期那些制作精良的戏剧形式，这基本上就是一种构建戏剧的模式。

To understand this though, we first need to look at an earlier form of drama known as the well-made play, which basically was a pattern for constructing plays.

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首先，我们要寻求达成协议。

First, we will seek to understand.

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In the first place, it's important that we avoid, I think, two equally unhelpful ways of responding to this.

首先很重要的是，我们要避免，我认为的两种同样无益的解析方式。

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First of all, we have to remember that sending people to war is not necessarily implying that they'll die.

首先，我们要明确，把人们送去参战,并不一定代表他们会死。

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Indeed, to get at that question, the first thing we're going to have to think about is what are we?

事实上，要解决这个问题，我们首先要考虑的是，我们是什么？

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