So far attacks in the U.S. - at least those that are publicly known -- have been thwarted by heightened security awareness and increased counterterrorism measures from the U.S.side, as well as by both bad luck and professional incompetence on the terrorists' part.

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A god can make a plan and they're thwarted by another god who then murders that god.

神可以制订计划，却可以被另一个神阻止,这个神接着还会杀了他。

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The will of any one god can be thwarted by perhaps another god.

某一条神谕可能会受到另一个神的反对。

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He's thwarted by these midwives.

但接生婆拒绝了他的命令。

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There can therefore, be no notion of a supreme divine will, an absolute or sovereign divine will. The will of any one god ultimately can be countered by the decrees of the primordial realm and the will of all the gods can be thwarted by the decrees of the primordial realm.

世上将不会再有至高的神谕，任何一个神谕最终将会被,这个原始领域的法令所驳回,所有的神谕都会遭到反对。

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So he decides to destroy the gods - and he is thwarted by a water god named Ea, an earth-water god- En sorry, he's a combination earth-water god--named Ea.

于是他便决定摧毁神灵,但他被一个叫做En的水神阻止，他是一个土神，不，水神-,对不起，他是水神和土神的合体，名叫。

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