There are lots of Ancient Near Eastern stories of ; Gods fashioning humans from clay; We have depictions of gods as potters at a potter's wheel just turning out lots of little humans.

也有很多古代近东故事,关于上帝用黏土造人;,我们看来上帝就像转盘旁边的陶艺工匠,造出许多小小的人类。

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First, the fashioning of the human from clay is--again--in that story, The final climactic act of creation is the creation of the female from the male.

首先，用黏土创造人类又一次出现在故事中，创物行动中的高潮是,从男人身体中创造了女人。

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In almost every poem Walt Whitman wrote he seems to be fashioning himself, if not the whole of this American people, which sometimes he did call an American race, as a new Adam.

在沃尔特·惠特曼所写的的几乎每首诗中,他似乎都是在标榜自己,如果不是标榜美国人民的话,但他确实有时将美利坚民族,称为一个新的亚当

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