They've managed to procure no more than a burial plot in the Promised Land Even God has left his land, descending with the Israelites into Egypt, so the promises and their fulfillment seem quite remote.

他们只试图在应许之地获得一块葬身之地,甚至上帝也离开了他的土地，与以色列人一起下埃及去，因此许诺和它们的实现似乎相去甚远。

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The palmer accompanies him on all of his adventures but this one, and Spenser in stanza two of this canto makes a big deal of the fact that Guyon is descending in to the Cave of Mammon by himself.

朝圣者陪着他经历了除了这里之外的所有冒险，斯潘塞在这篇长诗的第二节对这一事件大做文章,他想表达盖恩是独自一人进入贪婪之神的洞穴的。

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Some cultures have you going to Heaven or descending to Hell.

在一些文化中,你会上天堂或是下地狱

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So the Diadokhoi, the Greek plural of Diadochi, as we often refer to it, ended up splitting his army into four parts and four dynasties descending from the four successors.

所以这四个Diadokhoi，也就是Diadochi的复数形式，我们通常用这个词，最终将他的军队分割为四个部分,由此产生了四个王朝。

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