He says in The Bridge, he asks the bridge to lend a myth to God, and he suggests that this is something that every age must do because our names for God are always metaphors, poems, something imagined, acts of speech.

他在《桥》中写道，他请求大桥借与上帝一个神话，他暗示到有些事情是每个年纪的人都必须做的,因为我们给予上帝的名总是一些隐喻啊诗歌啊，一些想象的事物，对言辞的表演。

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As I said, in some context last time, how many Russian peasants died in the 1890s thinking, "Oh my god, if the Czar only knew that we're starving, how angry he would be with his officials."

就像我在上一讲提到的,有多少死于1890年代的俄国农民会想,"上帝啊,要是沙皇知道我们在挨饿就好了,他该对手下的官员发多大的火啊"

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