要是我们预先知道这事就好了。

I wish we'd known about it beforehand.

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我们如何报答这个先知？

What shall we pay this prophet?

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这些材料提供了重要的背景知识,以使我们阅读《后先知书》

This material is therefore crucial background to reading the Latter Prophets.

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Perhaps we want to write like Shakespeare, maybe we want to be a writer like the great Old Testament prophet Isaiah. But the last thing we should be burdened with, Milton's suggesting here, is the fear of being late.

也许我们想向莎士比亚一样，也许想成为,伟大的旧约先知以赛亚,但弥尔顿说我们最不应该被，担心迟到所困。

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But now he's able to tell us that he has already become prophetic.

但是现在他能够告诉我们他的确是具有先知能力的。

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This material is therefore crucial background to reading the Latter Prophets.

这些材料提供了重要的背景知识,以使我们阅读《后先知书》

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