When he's in the army, he can get rid of Jesus by converting not to evil, but to nothing, to believe in nothing.

当他当兵的时候，以不去向罪恶堕落，选择做一个虚无主义者的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The blood of sacrificial animals is assigned by God as a detergent, if you will, to cleanse the sanctuary of the impurities that are caused by the sinful deeds of the Israelites.

祭祀动物的血液被上帝指定为清洁剂，如果你想，它可以用来清除圣所中,由以色列人的罪恶行为带来的不洁。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Oh, Son. Did you not ever go on your knees and pray for deliverance from all your sins and scoundrel's acts? Lost boy, depart.

噢，儿子！你怎么不跪下，为了对你的所有,罪恶和卑鄙行为的判决而祈祷，迷失的孩子，走吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Discord within the city, just as discord within the soul, is regarded as the greatest evil.

城邦内的不协调，一如灵魂里的不协调，全被视为是最严重的罪恶。

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They are mere personifications of abstract ideas, and it's not at all clear that Sin and her son, Death, exist as individual entities in the same way, or on the same plane, that Satan does, for example, or Beelzebub.

他们仅仅是将抽象的思想拟人化的结果，但我们不清楚的是罪恶之神和她的儿子死神，以同样的方式或在同一个星球作为独立的个体存在，例如撒旦或者苍蝇王比尔泽布也是这样。

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In contrast to ritual impurity, moral impurity does arise from the commission of sins. Ritual impurity does not: you're never told not to become ritually impure, okay?

相比仪式的不洁，道德的不洁,的确是由于罪恶的堆积而产生，仪式上的不洁不是：,没有人告诉你别变得仪式上的不洁，对吧？

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There is a vagueness to this language that I think is quite calculated, and it relates, in Haze's case, to his determination to not be converted to evil, but to nothing.

他的语言有种刻意而为的模糊感,对他来说，这与他不向罪恶堕落，宁可选择虚无的决心有关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选