We've got wind, we've got a primeval chaotic, Watery mass or deep, and then surprise, There's just a word,"Let there be light."

我们有了气流，有了原始的混乱，狂放的水流，混沌，但奇怪的是，只有一句话，“要有光“

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Here's Samson: O first created Beam, and thou great Word, ; "Let there be light, and light was over all"; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree?

参孙说到：,为什么我被剥夺你这第一道命令，“我们要有光！“光就普照一切;,为什么我被剥夺你这第一道命令？

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When God began this process of creating the heaven and the earth, And the earth was unformed and void, And his wind was on the surface of the deep and so on, He said, "Let there be light and there was light."

当上帝开始开创天地的过程，大地一片混沌，虚空无形，他的呼吸掠过这混沌的表面，他说，“要有光，于是便有了光“

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The dial tone is that state of awareness of the divine that Buddy speaks of when he says- when he speaks of being with God before God said, "Let there be light."

拨号音是神学意识的体现,巴蒂曾提过，当他提到在上帝说,让光芒普照大地，这句话前就与上帝同在时说过“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When God began to create heaven and earth," And there's a parenthetical clause: "God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light."

起初，上帝创造天地“,这里有一个插入语句：,“上帝说，要有光，就有了光“

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It's better translated this way: He said, 'Let there be light and there was light.'" And that translation suggests that the story isn't concerned to depict the ultimate origins of the universe.

这样翻译会更好：,他说，“要有光，于是便有了光“,这样说便表明故事并不旨在描述,宇宙最初的起源。

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Knowledge, all the arts and sciences, literature, all of the religious writings of the world are manifestations of that voice that at its origin is God saying, "Let there be light." It's the voice of creation.

只是，所有的艺术，科学，文学，所有世界上宗教的写作的开端,都是上帝的声音，让光明普照世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选