I chopped down the cherry tree." Is the story true?

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It virtually ignores the tree of life until we get to the end of the story And that's important.

它实际上忽略了知识树，我们读完故事便会发现,这一点很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They designed and created this timeline and then shared with the children based on a timeline and the family tree that the professor had in his story.

全是由他们自己设计并制作的,并与大家分享,这样的家谱就像教授在,他的故事中给出的那样。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

That's the focus of our attention in Genesis, and it's only at the end of the story that the tree of life appears again in the passage that is emphasizing its permanent inaccessibility.

这点，是我们读《创世纪》时，应该特别注意的一点,直到故事的结束，生命树才又出现,是为了强调人类，永远无法接近它。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Genesis story of God's peremptory prohibition of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the strongest analogy that I can think of to the licenser's peremptory prohibition of a book.

创世纪》的故事中上帝坚决禁止,智慧树区分善恶的果实是我能想到的,最有力的和管制者对书本的坚决禁止的类比。

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