He wrote a short story that perhaps best explains the terrible conditions gold seekers faced.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Sometimes they challenge and contradict one another, but they are not best seen as linear, as telling a neat, linear story about Israelite religion flowering and fading.

有时候它们相互对质或矛盾，但它们从未被当作线性结构，整洁有序的故事,关于以色列宗教的兴盛与衰落。

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It would be best if the physicalist could give us that kind of story.

物理主义者要是能够给出,这样的解释,那再好不过了

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His best known short story is "To Build a Fire."

VOA: special.2010.05.21

.. It's one thing to have-- it's not to say that the best-- if you want your life to be like the plot of a great story, it's not as though you think, " "All right, the denouement must occur at the very last page."

如果你拥有-,不是说最美好的生活-,如果你想让生活像美好的故事情节，它并不像你所想的，“好的，结局一定是在最后一页“

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