So the writer seems very determined to tell the story in a way that depicts God as acting not capriciously but according to certain clear standards of justice.

作者似乎决定,描述不是一个变幻莫测,而是有着很清楚公正原则的上帝。

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It's not clear that this event ever really took place, but it's really not very important, because what Herodotus is doing is telling how he, I think, and how the Greeks in general viewed the questions at issue.

我们无法证实这件事是否真的发生过,但是这并不重要,因为我认为希罗多德是为了,告诉我们,他以及几乎所有的希腊人,是如何看待这个引人争议的问题的

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