Such is her power. But we have every right to ask what Medusa - this is a figure from Greek mythology - what Medusa is doing in a Christian hell.

她有那样的力量，但我们有权问问美杜莎,这一希腊神话里的人物,在基督教的地狱里做什么。

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We do have the power now.

我们现在确实有这样的力量。

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Even if we locate a source of some kind of genuine strength, authoritative strength, it's still usually possible, as it is for Satan, to argue that that power is really at base just the concealed product of custom or what we would think of as cultural construction.

有时即使我们找到了一种真实的，权威的力量，还是有可能像撒旦所辩解的那样，这种力量其实只是,约定俗成的规矩教条的隐秘产物,或者如我们所想来自文化建构。

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It would drive us into such baroque circumlocutions and avoidances of the obvious to say, "Oh, social factors have nothing to do with this," that we might as well just sort of--not give the distinction up, because I think it's very important always to have it in the back of our minds.

它会给我们带来大量的冗余的表达,并且很明显，它和社会力量有很大关系“,我们会倾向于忽视这种区别，但是我们还是要重视这种区别,因为我觉得。

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