The song is an homage to the nomadic Tuareg people of Northern Africa.

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Abel is a keeper of sheep. He represents the nomadic pastoralist, unlike Cain who is the tiller of soil, so he represents more settled urban life.

亚伯是一个牧羊人，代表着不断迁徙的牧场主，而该隐是一个农夫，他代表在城市定居的人。

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God's preference for the offering of Abel valorizes the free life of the nomadic pastoralist over urban existence.

上帝对亚伯的优待，肯定了游牧式的生活,甚于定居的生活。

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The eldest of 12 children, he was born in a sod hut near Repulse Bay and spent his early years living in the nomadic tradition of the Inuit.

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Muscovy had already conquered the Volga basin in the 16th century, where the nomadic Tatars were, T-A-T-A-R-S.

6世纪时莫斯科公国已经征服了伏尔加盆地,游牧鞑靼民族住的地方

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One would be characteristic of semi-nomadic pastoralists: the sacrifice of the first lamb born in the spring to the deity in order to procure favor and continued blessing on the flocks for the spring.

一种是具有半游牧人的特色：,他们把春天里的第一只羊羔献给神,为了获得神的偏爱,来年春天继续赐福。

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You have semi-nomadic shepherds. You have city dwellers.

这里有半游牧的牧民，有城市居住者。

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And so here in Exodus, we find that just as the nation of Israel is coming into existence, just as the Israelites are making the transition from a nomadic existence to a more settled way of life ultimately in their own land, there seems to be a collective memory of a similar change in her religion.

所以在《出埃及记》中，我们可以看到,以色列作为一个国家即将诞生，就像犹太人,从游牧的生活方式,向更安定生活的转变,就像在宗教中同一个改变中的共同记忆。

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