He says that at the early service on Christmas Eve, he will begin with a question for the children.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

We know, of course, that Adam and Eve are going to eat the stupid fruit; but Milton is developing a style that works to resist our drive to get to the end of the story.

我们知道亚当夏娃会吃掉那愚蠢的果子;,但弥尔顿创造了一种体式,抗拒我们想要读到故事结局的冲动。

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There has been a long tradition of interpreting the deed or the sin of Adam and Eve as sexual, and there are some hints in the story that would support such an interpretation.

很长的一段时间中，我们把亚当夏娃所犯的原罪,解释为他们之间的性举动，这个故事中，有些暗示,与这种解释，不谋而合。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Hotels in many cities have special deals for New Year's Eve: dinner,Champagne and a party.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Just look at those lines again: rom Morn to Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summer's day.

再看看这几行诗：,从早晨到中午，从中午到黄昏，在整整一个长夏的日子。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now its officials gave her a part in "All About Eve."

VOA: special.2009.12.06

The Garden of Eden contains,first of all,just Adam and then when God decides, for his own reasons, that he needs a companion, he invents one other companion,Eve.

最初,伊甸园中只有亚当一人,接着上帝出于自己的理由,认为亚当需要一位伴侣,于是创造了夏娃

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

These intensified after a terrorist attack in January killed three people on the eve of the Africa championship in Angola.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

So just as the harlot tells Enkidu after his sexual awakening that he has become like a god, so Adam and Eve after eating the forbidden fruit are said to be like divine beings. Why?

所以，就像Enkidu的性觉醒以后，神妓告诉他,他将成为一个具有神性的人，亚当夏娃吃了,禁果以后，也会变成具有神性的物种，为什么？

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Secretary Clinton says Afghanistan is at a critical moment in its history on the eve of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai's second term.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

Just as Enkidu gains wisdom and becomes like a god and loses his oneness with nature, so Adam and Eve after eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil are said to have become like gods and they also lose their harmonious relationship with nature.

就像Enkidu得到智慧，变得有神性，却失掉,与自然的和谐，亚当和夏娃在吃了智慧果以后,也变得具有神性,同时也失掉了与自然的和谐关系。

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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has testified at his war crimes trial that he did not meet with a rebel leader on the eve of the invasion of Sierra Leone.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

The very idea of divine providence, when it's injected into the story of Adam and Eve's perfectly disastrous choice to eat the apple, seems to arouse in a lot of us feelings of injustice.

天命的想法，当深深植入到亚当夏娃的故事中,植入到他们决定偷吃禁果的毁灭性的决定里去时，似乎让我们有种不公平的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

At a media event on the eve of her official meetings here, Clinton said she believes Pakistan has, in the recent months, been making real efforts to curb extremists that have been operating on its territory: "In the past six months, in the course of working with the government of Pakistan, we believe that there is a commitment to fighting terrorism that permeates the entire government.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Milton is adamant throughout the epic in his insistent imagining Adam and Eve quite specifically as a married couple - and a married couple -- and this is important to Milton -- a married couple with an active sex life.

弥尔顿在他的叙事诗中坚定不移的认为,作为已婚的夫妇，亚当和夏娃,已婚的夫妇--这一点对弥尔顿来说很重要-,有频繁性生活的夫妇。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And when we remember that God will dig a rib out of Adam's wound in order to create the beautiful, the golden Eve, we realize how complicated, how complex and how ambivalent, Milton's little image is here at the beginning of the poem.

当我们想起上帝从亚当的伤口中取出一根肋骨,以创造美丽的金色的夏娃，我们意识到弥尔顿在诗的开头描绘的景象，是多么的复杂巧妙，多么的矛盾纠结。

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