I love reading these particular stories, and just hearing the dialogue between them, and imagining it, because the two of them alternate in losing patience with the Israelites, and wishing to throw them over.

我喜欢读这些特别的故事，读他们之间的对话，想象那个场景，因为他们两个轮流对犹太人,失去耐心，想放弃他们。

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We have to pair that with that other evocation of the landscape to see this alternate idea, that actually this distanced criss-crossing of the landscape could be damaging. Think of those other violent knight's moves, like skipping past the mother's death.

我们得把关于风景的另一个回忆组成一对去理解,这个额外的想法，这个疏远的,十字纵横的景色描写可能是毁坏性的，想想其他的暴力的,迂回前进，比如跳过母亲死亡的方式。

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He invites us to hear the sweep of the scythe in those s sounds themselves, I think, and maybe even to hear the workers huff and puff, his rhythmic exhalation in the w's, which alternate and interact with those s's.

他让我们倾听镰刀扫过的声音,我觉得应该是这些s的发音上,也可能是听着劳动者的喘息声，他的有节奏的w似的发声，跟s音交替着互动。

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