it has symbolically suffered from the offerer's state of ritual impurity or sinfulness.

象征性的忍受了由,献祭者的不洁或罪孽所带来的痛苦。

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Well, apparently Richard in real life did not refuse to make those changes. And imagine, in a book that then undergoes this publishing history that I have described, this is kind of a symbolic scene.

很明显，现实生活中的理查,并没有拒绝那些修改,想像一下，经历上述出版过程的一本书，这是象征性的场景。

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Jacob Milgrom sees a moral message at the base of this complex, symbolic picture. And that is that humans and humans alone are responsible for the rein of wickedness and death or the rein of righteousness and life.

米尔格罗姆在这这个复杂的基础上看出了一个道德上的信息，一副象征性的图画，那就是人类,应该单独承担起驾驭邪恶与死亡,正义和生存之间的责任。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But in fact, in his own way, he's talking about his inability ; to keep his child alive there; in a kind of metaphorical way, speaking of his failure to build a fence to last.

但事实上，以他自己的方式，他在诉说自己的无能,不能让孩子活下来;,以一种象征性的方式，谈论自己不能制作出一个一直在那的栅栏。

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He's claiming only that it is available and can be adduced from what we call "evidence" in the same way that the symbolic interpretation, based on the rhetorical question, is available and can be adduced from evidence -and that these two viewpoints are irreducible.

他只是声称这是一种可能，而且可以从,我们所说的“证据“之中引证得到,同样的，基于修辞型问句之上的象征性诠释，也是一种可能，也能够引证,而且，这两种观点是不可削减的。

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