In the first place, he judges the people to be more reliable, as he tells us, than the great.

首先，他断定人们更为可靠,正如他告诉我们的，比起大人物们来说。

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The reason I got to be a soccer team captain in the first place was because my coach said,

我最初之所以成为球队队长是因为我的教练说，

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We'd all be better off dead, " or perhaps more accurately still, " all be better off never having been born in the first place."

我们死了会更好，“或者更准确地说，“没有出生会更好“

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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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to be able to provide value to those who made the art in the first place.

向首先创造出艺术的人提供价值的能力。

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In the first place, notice that sometimes story can be the dominant in obviously formal terms.

有时候故事明显,会占支配地位。

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