我们尽可谈论美的事物，但美本身却是抽象的。

We may talk of beautiful things but beauty itself is abstract.

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不能把其中任何一个与美本身混为一谈。

But none of them should be confused with beauty itself.

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花是美的，但美本身却是抽象的。

A flower is beautiful, but beauty itself is abstract.

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But none of them should be confused with beauty itself.

不能把其中任何一个与美本身混为一谈

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In the Mesopotamian account, the gods themselves are created ; And they're not even created first, actually; The first generation of beings creates these odd demons and monsters, And gods only are created after several generations Marduk And the god of creation, Marduk, Is actually kind of a latecomer in the picture.

在美索不达米亚的描述中，众神本身也是被创造的,而事实上，他们还不是最先被创造出来的;,是最早的存在创造了那些恶魔和怪兽，而众神是在好几代之后才被创造的,而有创造能力的神是，他在创世的图景中是姗姗来迟的。

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