Between events,just as in a circus, rodeo clowns act silly to entertain children in the audience.

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I'm going to just give you two examples of the way Moses and God act as a check upon each other.

我会给大家举两个例子,就上帝和摩西克制对方脾气的例子。

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Act for them, to them. Don't act as if they are just some bunch of Philistines out there who can't appreciate your art.

为他们表演，想他们表演，不要把它们当做俗气的人,所以不能欣赏你们的艺术。

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And just as in that earlier poem the act of fishing is symbolically resonant "The Fisherman" is an image of man searching the depths of the world for the wisdom that hides beneath the surface of things.

和以前的事一样,也是有象征意味的,渔夫是一个探索世界的深邃,和隐藏在事物表面下的智慧,的一个人物形象。

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