When we read the flood story in Genesis 6 through 9, we're often struck by the very odd literary style.

当我们在《创世纪》中读到关于大洪水故事时，会觉得文风非常奇怪。

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And as you read the story, remember its larger context: God's promise to make Abraham the father of a great people through his son, Isaac.

当阅读这个故事时，记住它的大框架：上帝许诺,亚伯拉罕通过他的儿子以撒成为大国之父。

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These stories, the stories we hear from earliest childhood on, shape us in some very meaningful sense for the rest of our lives.

这些故事，我们从小听到大的故事，形塑了一些我们一生,最有意义的观念。

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He was in the circus going around the country with his big iron rod telling everybody the story as they surrounded him and clapped.

他跟着马戏团全国巡演,带着他的大铁棒，告诉大家这个故事,观众们围着他并鼓掌。

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It's a story of catastrophes.

这是关于一场大灾难的故事。

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Peddlers who had these big, big leather bags that would go around Europe and sell things like pins and miraculous images of the Virgin Mary and the stories of saints and all this kind of stuff and Joan of Arc or Robin Hood, in the case of England, become part of the collective memory.

拿着大皮袋的小贩们走遍欧洲,到处贩卖例如胸针,圣母画像,圣徒故事,圣女贞德和罗宾汉之类的小册子,这成了英国大众记忆的一部分

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This is Sal's story about Big Slim Hazard, a hobo that he once knew.

这是Sal和大长哈泽的故事，哈泽是他认识的一个流浪汉。

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And sometimes it occurs in one passage, as in the flood story here, and sometimes it occurs in stories or passages that are separate from one another, for example, the two creation stories.

有时，会出现在一段文章中，就像大洪水的故事，有时，会出现在完全不相关的两个故事或者文章中,比如说，两个创世纪的故事。

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You might want to get that out in front of you because we're going to talk a little bit about the flood story in Genesis 6 through 9.

你们也许急于摆脱它，因为基于你们对,《创世纪》6到9章的阅读，谈谈对大洪水故事的想法。

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We can also follow stories which involve more profound transformations as when a man dies and is reborn into the body of a child.

我们也能理解很多包含更大转变的故事,比如某人死后又转世投胎到新生儿的身上

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