黑人舞蹈音乐自20世纪60年代初以来对主流流行音乐一直都是最重要的。

Black dance music has been central to mainstream pop since the early '60s.

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我在20世纪60年代初第一次认识了他。

I first made his acquaintance in the early 1960s.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

大约在20世纪50年代初，一些学生开始使用金属饭盒。

Around the beginning of the nineteen fifties, some school kids started to use metal meal containers.

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But the question is how are those of us of this generation, living that ethic out in the early 21st century?

但问题是,我们这代人如何，将在21世纪初的生活中体现这一道德？

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Now the word "first" begins to take on a much bigger range of significances than we might at first think.

现在看来，“初/先“一词,比我们起先所想的有更加重大的意义。

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You can think of it as this reaction to the problem of lateness that accounts for one of the invocation's most distinctive features, and that's the repetition of the word "first."

你们可以把弥尔顿在这首诗中对“晚“的回应,当做这首诗最明显的特征之一，这表现在他反复使用“初/先“一词上“

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