We have what at first seems like a pretty attractive theory, but then, how do you explain the fact that this has happened before?

我们提出了一开始看起来很有吸引力的理论，但是接下来，你要如何解释以前也发生过这种情况呢？

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Some people believe whatever has happened before or is happening now will repeat itself in the future.

有些人相信过去发生或现在发生的一切将来都会重演。

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It has happened before.

这在以前就发生过。

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In the North, people mourned. One man wrote: "The events of the last month or two have done more to build northern opposition to slavery than anything which has ever happened before, than all the anti-slavery pamphlets and books that have ever been written."

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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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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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It has happened before under more dire circumstances, after the herd all headed for the exit.

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The story of Gowalla and other similar services has happened before, and it will happen again.

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