The first creation story doesn't really contain puns and wordplays, it's a little bit serious. The second creation story is full of them: there are all sorts of little ironies and puns in the Hebrew.

第一个创世纪故事中很少有双关语和文字游戏，有几分严肃，第二个故事却充满了这些：,希伯来语中有许多反讽和双关。

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There are also all kinds of paradoxes and subtle puns and ironies, and in section where you'll be doing a lot of your close reading work, those are some of the things that will be drawn to your attention.

里面有各种悖论，微妙的双关语，明讥暗讽，在课上我们将会做很多精细的阅读，而那些就是你们应该注意的地方。

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In other words, you might think of it as a kind of artificial, processed, bland, easily consumable version of fate. I really mean that. One of the funny things about that debt to Finnegans Wake is, Finnegans Wake as a book of puns is unreadable.

也就是说，你可能会把它当做一种人为的，处理过的，乏味的，容易消耗的命运，我正是此意,关于《芬尼根守灵夜》中一个有趣的事是,它作为一本充满双关语的书是不值得一读的。

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Adam and Eve are naked, arum, which is the same word for clever or shrewd, and the snake is arum, he's clever and shrewd: there are lots of little puns of this kind.

亚当和夏娃是赤裸的是聪明,或者机灵的意思，蛇也是聪明的意思：,有很多类似的双关语。

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