The very idea of divine providence, when it's injected into the story of Adam and Eve's perfectly disastrous choice to eat the apple, seems to arouse in a lot of us feelings of injustice.

天命的想法，当深深植入到亚当夏娃的故事中,植入到他们决定偷吃禁果的毁灭性的决定里去时，似乎让我们有种不公平的感觉。

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I can't help but feel that within the context of the actual story of the Fall, the Fall of Adam and Eve, that the idea of divine providence isn't actually all that comforting.

我觉得在这个故事的实际框架中,关于堕落，亚当夏娃的堕落的来龙去脉中的，上帝的天命的思想并不那么让人舒坦。

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The story of the first human pair in the Garden of Eden, which is in Genesis 2 and 3 has clear affinities with the Epic of Gilgamesh, that's a Babylonian and Assyrian epic in which a hero embarks on this exhausting search for immortality.

创世纪2至3，里，伊甸园亚当和夏娃的故事,与《吉尔迦美什史诗》有着密切的联系，《吉尔迦美什史诗》是巴比伦人和亚叙人的,一个英雄竭尽全力追求永生的故事。

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And so Chudleigh attempts to demonstrate - and this is the passage at the top of the handout - Chudleigh attempts to demonstrate that the Genesis story of Adam and Eve establishes no such thing.

因此恰德莱试图说明,-这是讲义中最上面的一段,-恰德莱试图说明,上帝创造亚当夏娃的故事并不能证明性别地位一说。

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The story of Adam and Eve and of the fall of Satan may strike us - having read or about to read Paradise Lost -- may strike us as a natural subject for Milton to have chosen for his epic poem.

弥尔顿选择了亚当夏娃以及撒旦的溃败的故事,作为他史诗的主题在我们看来--不管我们读过,还是将要读《失乐园》--都是很自然的。

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There has been a long tradition of interpreting the deed or the sin of Adam and Eve as sexual, and there are some hints in the story that would support such an interpretation.

很长的一段时间中，我们把亚当夏娃所犯的原罪,解释为他们之间的性举动，这个故事中，有些暗示,与这种解释，不谋而合。

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