So magic in a pagan system, Kaufman claims, is a way of getting around the gods, circumventing the capricious will of the gods and demons.

考夫曼宣称，异教系统中的法术，可以用来应付众神,能使反复无常的神谕和恶魔的诅咒失灵。

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He is ponderously capricious. Many of his casual opinions on the people and scenery of this country are ludicrous.

他十分反复无常，他对这个国家的人和,风景的看法十分滑稽。

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They're not the menials and servants of capricious gods.

他们也不是变幻无测上帝的奴仆。

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To know history, put on the god's knowledge with his power, would be to have access to history's meaning, and therefore to be more than merely subject to it, subject to its capricious and violating forces.

懂得历史，把上帝之智与力结合，才能接近历史的真实意义，否则只是受过历史的影响而已，被动无力地承受着历史的影响。

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