Now, he hasn't yet settled on the topic of the Fall, the fall of Adam and Eve from their place of bliss in the Garden of Eden.

现在他还没有定下《降临》这首诗的主题，亚当和夏娃从伊甸园这个极乐的地方降临人间。

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I can't help but feel that within the context of the actual story of the Fall, the Fall of Adam and Eve, that the idea of divine providence isn't actually all that comforting.

我觉得在这个故事的实际框架中,关于堕落，亚当夏娃的堕落的来龙去脉中的，上帝的天命的思想并不那么让人舒坦。

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And that may generalize again and it keeps going until you either get back to Adam and Eve, I guess. I don't think they were born in the US as far as I know, or you find somebody who satisfies that definition or you find that none of your parents actually are in that category.

降低到我的父亲或者母亲,是不是天生的美国公民呢,这个问题可以继续向下分解,你甚至可以追溯到亚当和夏娃的时候,据我所知它们并不是出生在美国的,或者你要么找到一个符合定义的人,要么发现你的父母都不满足条件。

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I hesitate to I don't hesitate to say that you will never read Adam Smith in an economics course here at Yale and it is very unlikely that you will read Freud in your psychology classes.

我犹疑，我毫不犹疑的说,你绝对不会读到亚当？史密斯,至少在耶鲁的经济学课堂上不会,而且你也不太可能,在你的心理学课堂上读到佛洛伊德。

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The unfallen Adam certainly didn't need a telescope to discern a lot about the heavenly bodies.

失足前的亚当当然不会需要望远镜,来观察天堂中的人们。

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Adam at the Fall didn't simply come into a knowledge primarily of evil.

亚当在那个秋天并不是首先遇到恶的。

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