It's mortality that gives it that sense of ephemeral value, but it's also mortality that threatens to cancel it out altogether.

因为逃不过必死的结局所以给了美朝生暮死的价值，但必死性也可能带来全盘出局的威胁。

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There are several times when God threatens to exterminate them, but Moses manages to dissuade him.

很多次，上帝恐吓要根绝他们，但是摩西都设法劝阻了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A road where the lion threatens but whose jaws are stopped.

在流浪的路上，狮子虽威吓，却不再杀害。

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It falls apart, or at least it threatens to do so.

他们破碎了，或者即将破碎。

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So separation from that which threatens its sanctity.

将它与威胁到它神性的东西区别隔离开。

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