But my mother, being more imaginative, retaliated with an assault upon my sensibilities that crushed me with the moral horror involved in taking a life.

可是我母亲更擅长运用生活的艺术，她会用人性的良知感情惩戒我,让我以后对摧残生灵心有余悸，“

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So as one reads the epic one senses this very deep ambivalence regarding the relative virtues and evils of civilized life and many of the features that make us human.

当人们读到这一段的时候，总是会对文明生活方式的利弊,产生一种很矛盾的感情,然而正是这些特性让人区别于动物。

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The life of somebody who can have an emotional side.

我们想要有感情的生活。

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