So the Priestly texts couldn't be clearer: blood represents life.

有关祭司的文章中已经说得很明白了：血液代表生命。

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Abel is a keeper of sheep. He represents the nomadic pastoralist, unlike Cain who is the tiller of soil, so he represents more settled urban life.

亚伯是一个牧羊人，代表着不断迁徙的牧场主，而该隐是一个农夫，他代表在城市定居的人。

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There is the room that this world represents, this life represents.

一个房间代表这个世界,代表今生

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It represents the moment in the life of Socrates where he turns away from the investigation of natural phenomena to the study of the human and political things the moral and political things.

它代表着苏格拉底生命中,从调查自然现象,转向研究,人类与政治事务,即道德与政治事务。

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According to the Priestly source, blood, the blood that courses through one's veins, represents the life force.

根据祭司资料，血,在人血管中流动，代表着生命的力量。

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