我知道他们拥有的秘密武器；他们的信仰非常强大，可以一次又一次地毁灭我们。

I know one secret weapon they have; their God is all-powerful--he destroyed us once, and he might again.

youdao

约翰·厄普代克通过他的笔耕把这些以及更多的事件编进该篇小说里，他让我们大家都知道一个人解脱了我们大家都拥有的东西：时间。

John Updike chronicled these things and more in his decades of writing, and in this story he lets us in on the one release we all have: time.

youdao

我们知道这些偶发事件是在天空拥有的最大的灾难；但我们仅仅——大概了解——只知其然，却不知其所以然。

We know that these events are among the most cataclysmic that the sky holds; but we understand only-and approximately-the how, not the why.

youdao

So all we have to know is,is there somebody else somewhere in the universe who's got all my memories and beliefs and desires?

我们要知道的是，在别处有无他人,拥有我所有的记忆，信仰和欲望？

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