There is an old saying that forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest.

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I suggested just a minute ago that one of the relevant stories that is always lying behind Milton's discussion of human choice is the story from the Book of Genesis about Adam and Eve's choice to eat the forbidden fruit.

我一分钟前刚说过一个相关的故事,总是藏在弥尔顿对人类选择权问题的探讨背后,是《创世纪》中,亚当和夏娃选择偷吃禁果。

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There was good in that forbidden fruit as well as evil.

善和恶都在禁果里。

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So just as the harlot tells Enkidu after his sexual awakening that he has become like a god, so Adam and Eve after eating the forbidden fruit are said to be like divine beings. Why?

所以，就像Enkidu的性觉醒以后，神妓告诉他,他将成为一个具有神性的人，亚当夏娃吃了,禁果以后，也会变成具有神性的物种，为什么？

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It's the eating of the forbidden fruit by Adam and Eve.

这就是亚当和夏娃偷吃了禁果。

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The sense of the sentence pushes us on to the next line, which alters our view of the meaning of the word "fruit:": "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit / of that Forbidden Tree."

句意迫使我们看下一句，看了这句我们对“果子“的理解也发生变化：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“

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