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.

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。

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Leif Ericson and his men were the first Europeans to walk on the shores of North America, almost 500 years earlier than Columbus.

列夫·埃里克森和他的同伴是第一批踏上北美海岸的欧洲人，比哥伦布早了大约500年。

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We are pretty sure that horses were first domesticated a bit earlier, to the northwest, in the area that is now Ukraine and western Russia.

我们很确定在早些时候，马就在西北地区，即现在的乌克兰和俄罗斯西部被驯养。

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Today we tell about the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, who died earlier this week.

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The United Kingdom was the prominent first case even though they had invented the gold standard hundreds of years earlier.

英国是著名的第一个放弃金本位的国家,即使它在几百年前,发明了金本位制度。

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That's a term that first entered the English language sometime in the mid-nineteenth century, but of course the concept goes earlier.

这个词在19世纪中期,第一次出现在英语中，当然概念产生得早些。

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Cech, whose wife gave birth to their first child earlier in the day, had little else to do in the first 45 minutes, but neither did opposite number Howard.

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With Djokovic leading the way and winning the conclusive rubber against John Isner, Serbia beat the might of the United States in the World Group first round earlier this month to reach the quarterfinals of the competition for the first time.

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Additionally, being obese means a girl is more likely to get her first period earlier.

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