The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.

史诗也解释并且映射了巴比伦王国的兴起,它是古代近东繁盛的城市之一。

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There are lots of Ancient Near Eastern stories of ; Gods fashioning humans from clay; We have depictions of gods as potters at a potter's wheel just turning out lots of little humans.

也有很多古代近东故事,关于上帝用黏土造人;,我们看来上帝就像转盘旁边的陶艺工匠,造出许多小小的人类。

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Rather he maintains as he puts it near the end of the defense speech that the examined life is alone worth living.

相反地，他维持辩护,快终结时的论点,受检视的人生孤独但有活着的价值。

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Well, it was published originally as an article in 1979, but this is also near the end of a period of flourishing that Derrida's essay inaugurates, and other things have begun to become crucial.

它初次出版是在1979年，作为一篇文章发表，但是这也快到了繁盛时期的末端,德里达的论文出现的那个时期，其它的东西开始变得重要。

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As Wellington said at Waterloo, it was a damn near thing.

威灵顿在滑铁卢用的也是这么一招

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For my money, I find the beginnings of the scientific explanation sufficiently persuasive and sufficiently compelling that I don't find the argument from near- death experience--as an argument for the existence of a soul-- I don't find it especially persuasive.

在我看来,我觉得这些初步的,科学解释已经足够有说服力,足够令人信服,而从濒死体验的角度,来证明灵魂存在论证,我认为它不是特别有说服力

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As the essays move chronologically--they were written over a period of time--as the essays that were written near Lolita come into the book, that word appears, also, describing various things.

正如随笔是按时间顺序走向的，它们也是,有时间顺序的，随笔写的时候Lolita刚刚发表，那个字出现了，描绘了很多事情。

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Quite often, it's natural to pick x and y in a certain way, because starting a projectile near the Earth, it makes sense to pick the horizontal as x and vertical as y.

我们经常会很自然地选取 x 轴和 y 轴,因为如果在地表附近做抛物运动,我们通常以水平方向为 x 轴,竖直方向为 y 轴

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And as if this were not enough, near the very end of his life, he returned to his classical studies translating all of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

这好像还不够，在他晚年的时候，他又回到了对经典的研究,翻译了荷马的《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》

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There is a story that near the end of his life, Aristotle was himself brought up on capital charges, as was Socrates, due to another wave of hostility to philosophy.

而在他快临终时有个故事讲到，亚里士多德,遭到死刑控告，如同苏格拉底一般，因为另一波的反哲学斗争。

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So Israelite accounts of creation contain ; clear allusions to and resonances of Ancient Near Eastern cosmogonies; but perhaps Genesis 1 can best be described as Demythologizing what was a common cultural heritage.

以色列的创世故事中包含了,对古代近东宇宙学明确的影射和暗示;,也许《创世纪》可以被描述为,对共同文化遗产的去传奇化。

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