We know it's an illusion, but we get to live in it so comfortably with so little alteration of the nature of the illusion or of the way in which we negotiate the illusory world, that it becomes kind of womb-like and cozy.

我们知道那是幻觉，但是我们活在其中，如此舒适地,基本不去改变幻觉的本质,也不改变我们在这个幻境中生活的方式，它变得如子宫般安全舒适。

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Perhaps only those of you who might come from a small town in the south or from certain areas of Brooklyn would understand something about the supreme value of piety as a way of life.

也许只有那些,来自南方小镇,或布鲁克林部份地区的人,才能了解,生活方式中,敬神的至高价值。

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And so here in Exodus, we find that just as the nation of Israel is coming into existence, just as the Israelites are making the transition from a nomadic existence to a more settled way of life ultimately in their own land, there seems to be a collective memory of a similar change in her religion.

所以在《出埃及记》中，我们可以看到,以色列作为一个国家即将诞生，就像犹太人,从游牧的生活方式,向更安定生活的转变,就像在宗教中同一个改变中的共同记忆。

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