“太初”是个多义词,它可以指太初(日本僧人), 太初(游戏武器), 太初(帝王年号), 太初(道家术语), 太初(《造梦西游3》中法宝)。
你的宝座从太初立定。你从亘古就有。
Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
这道太初与神同在,万物是借着他造的。
He was in the beginning with God, all things came into being through him.
从亘古,从太初,未有世界以前,我已被立。
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
This is a strategy called double syntax, the notion that "in the Beginning" can modify one verb or the other.
这种手法叫做双关句,也就是,“太初“可同时修饰两个动词。
Milton needs to imagine the narrative of the Creation as if the narration itself were taking place in the beginning, as if poetic creation could be a first in the same radical way that the creation of entire universe is obviously a first.
弥尔顿想象的对上帝创造万物的讲述,与上帝创造万物一样发生在太初之时,诗歌创作与整个宇宙的创造,都发生在太初之时。
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