They warn us of dangerous trends. They point out potent evils.

他们为我们警告对危险倾向，指出潜在的邪恶。

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He has to modify his plans for the first couple, by barring access to the tree of life. That was not something presumably he planned to do This is in response to, perhaps, their unforeseen disobedience certainly the way the story unfolds that's how it seems to us.

他更改了他的原计划，除了不能接近生命树,这些并不是他本打算做的事情,这也许是对意外挑衅的回应,故事是对后人的警告。

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But this reading of the Apology as you might say is a kind of brief for freedom of expression and a warning against the dangers of censorship and persecution.

但阅读《苏格拉底自辩篇》，你可能会说,好似一种对言论自由的概述,还有对审查,及迫害危机的警告。

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So that's a shot fired across the bow against the author because it's Barthes' supposition that the author isn't maybe even quite an author function because that function may be hard to identify in a discrete way among myriad other functions.

因而这是对作者的警告,因为巴特推测,作者可能甚至都不是功能性的,因为这种功能可能很难通过分离的方式,在很多其他功能中被辨认出来。

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Spinoza taking him, taking his book to be a warning to the people about the dangers of princely rule, Rousseau believing that he had deliberately disguised his love of freedom because he had to appeal to the tyrannical nature of the Medici family.

斯宾诺莎把他看作，把他的书看作是,告诫人们提防君主统治危险性的警告，卢梭认为他是故意,伪装他对自由的热爱的，因为他不得不,投合具有暴君本性的美第奇家族的口味。

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