18世纪初的曼彻斯特是一座美丽的集镇，人们生活在这个只有几条街道的小镇上。

At the beginning of the 18th century, Manchester was a pretty market town, its population living in a handful of streets.

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下周初，把孩子放在一个好心的邻居家中之后，我开始了整整一天的面试。

Early the next week, after leaving my children with a kind neighbor, I embarked on a full day of job interviews.

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在尼拉贡戈火山探险，带上山的每一点负重事先都要经过仔细掂量，但特德斯科毫不在乎，他甚至带了一大瓶特级初榨橄榄油。

On the Nyiragongo expedition, where every ounce hauled up the mountain was carefully considered, Tedesco brought a large glass bottle of extra virgin olive oil.

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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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