Similarly, divination. Divination is an attempt to discern the future that, once again, heads right to the source of power.

类似的还有占卜术，占卜是一种试图看清未来的法术,它的终极目标，也是神力的源头。

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And so Richard is learning a grammar of race even while he tries to work out how to use language as a source of power in his family.

所以理查在学习语言的艺术,虽局限于种族,就是他在家里受尽磨难时也在学习语言的魔力。

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They emerge from this indifferent primal realm, This mixture of salt and sea waters, that is the source of all being and the source of ultimate power, But they age and they mature and they fight and they die.

他们都来自没有差别的原始王国，那盐和水的混合体就是一切生物的本源,也是极权的来源，但是他们会成长，成熟，战争，又死去。

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His magic is directed at the metadivine realm, trying to tap into its powers. It's not directed at the gods. It's trying to tap into the ultimate source of power to use that power to influence the gods in a particular way or protect oneself against the gods.

这种法术的对象是超神领域，试图获得其中的神力,它不直接针对神，而是通过接近,神力的源头来获得力量，用特殊的方式影响众神,或保护某人不受到神的伤害。

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