It's a list of the contents of the knapsack of a soldier during the Vietnam War, just a list of the contents.

故事讲述了一个越战士兵,背包里的东西，只是一系列东西而已。

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Embedded within the explicit plot of the simile is a secret, a kind of buried narrative, and it's a hidden story that illustrates Satan's self-destruction.

深藏在这个比喻精巧的情节布局里的，是一个秘密，一个被深埋已久的故事，一个隐藏着的，阐述了撒旦自我毁灭的故事。

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I'm going to tell you a story in which-- your--body ends up one place, and your personality ends up some place else.

我要给你们讲一个故事-,故事里你的肉体在一处终结，而你的人格会在另一处终结。

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So in one of them Joshua's warriors seem to march silently around the city seven times.

在其中一个故事里，约书亚的战士们,不出一声地绕城七次。

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This has been called the "Lake Wobegon effect" based on Garrison Keillor's story about a place where all the children are above average.

这个就叫“乌比冈湖效应”,名字源于Garrison，Keillor的一个故事,故事里有个地方的小孩子比一般孩子都优秀。

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The thought experiment, you recall, was one in which I imagine, I tell myself a story in which what I'm doing is I'm imagining my mind existing without my body.

回忆一下 那个思想实验,在其中我想象,我给自己讲了一个故事,在这个故事里,我只是想象我的心灵独立于我的身体存在

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