I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf So we must keep apart, You there,I here, With just the door ajar That oceans are,And prayer, And that pale sustenance,Despair!

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At the end, the writer doesn't depict him as needing the sacrifice for food or sustenance.

最后，作者也没有把上帝描述成,一个需要贡品来获得食物的人。

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And moreover during the period of the flood they don't have food,they don't have sustenance.

而且，在洪水中，他们找不到食物,没有供给。

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It was a set of beliefs in the sustenance of a social order as it is.

这就是一套,维护社会体系的信仰

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I think this is a case where they need help, not deserve it, but I think, again, if you had a certain level of requirements to meet sustenance, you're gonna need help, like, if you don't have food or a place to live, that's a case of need.

我认为这个例子中，他们需要帮助，但并不他们是应得的，不过我认为，如果你在一定程度上需要他人救助以维持生计，你就需要别人的帮助，比如，如果你没东西吃，没地方住，这才是需要帮助。

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