这是一个古老的传说。很久以前，上帝承载着大量的负担，他想把它从一个地方运到另一个地方，因此，他请求动物们助他一臂之力。

An old legend relates that long ago God had a great many burdens which he wished to have carried from one place to another on earth, so he asked the animals to lend a hand.

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我们一方面有悬念的对立，就不可避免地会有，另一个方面，即这个会怎样解决，“哦，这是个传说，这会解决的，不用担心它？”

We have the dialectic of suspense on the one hand, how will this be resolved, and inevitability on the other, "Oh, it's a folk tale, it'll be resolved, don't worry about it."

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这是一个关于上帝存在与否的历史悠久的争论，传说上帝凭想象创造了人类，然后给人类注入了道德意识，也作为一种遵循或忽视的自由意志放在那儿。

This is a time-honored argument for the existence of a God who created human beings in his image and imbued them with a moral sense, as well as the free will to follow, or ignore, it.

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Now from the adult point of view, this is culinary because we know that we're in the world of folklore and that in folklore everything happens three times.

现在从成人角度来看，这是烹饪小说，因为我们知道,自己在一个民间传说的世界,而且在一个民间传说中事不过三。

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