The simile sets out to establish the moral polarities between good and evil, but it then works almost systematically to undo that understanding.

这里的比喻开始创造出善与恶之间的,两极性，然而后来它又几乎自动的抹去了这种理解。

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Europe,which is going to erase these license plates and are going to take away part of what it means to live in France.

欧洲,想要清除这些国别特征,并想抹消属于法国的那部分

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He's making a claim for language while erasing it.

他在抹去语言的同时对语言提出了要求。

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But anyway, it's just paper with some black material on it.

总之，就是张抹了点黑色材料的纸而已。

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Wouldn't a later writer have cleaned up this ancestral record if this were in fact something composed at a later period? Also, he notes that the representation of inter-ethnic relationships in the patriarchal stories does not accord with the reality of a later period.

后世的作者难道不会把祖先不光彩的记录抹去吗,如果事实上这故事是后来创作的话？同时，他还提出，宗族故事中所展示的种族间关系,与后世的现实是不相一致的。

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So, they developed this bifurcated tool, which would be appl--you'd put the stuff on the surface of the tool and then you'd scratch the skin in a certain way so that you could produce sort of a reproducible introduction of the vaccine into the skin.

所以他们发明了一种分为两叉的工具,把疫苗抹在这种工具表面上,然后以某种方式在皮肤上刮,这样就能将疫苗,重复不断地引入到皮下

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Yet, they wanted to get clean and so what device they used was to take oil, typically olive oil, spread it on themselves, then get a scrapper, a metal scrapper, and scrap off the oil with it what was underneath the oil.

当他们想要保持清洁时,他们所使用的东西就是油,通常是橄榄油,把橄榄油抹在身上,然后拿一个刮板,金属刮板,把污垢和油一起刮下来

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