“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。
We can also see in this phrase "in the Beginning" - we can see it applying to the end of the preceding clause, "That Shepherd who first taught the chosen Seed / in the Beginning."
太初“一词“,还修饰了后面跟着的从句,“那个牧羊人,最初向您的选民宣讲“
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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