So this is a timely opportunity to remind the world how agricultural biodiversity can improve productivity and nutrition,enhance livelihoods, respond to environmental challenges and deliver food security, Last July,the G8 summit in L'Aquila,Italy, issued a statement saying, There is an urgent need for decisive action to free humankind from hunger and poverty.

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The fruit did bring death to humankind.

智慧果会带给人类死亡。

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So it seems that humankind is to be destroyed because they irritate the gods with their tumult and noise.

这似乎是人类被毁灭的愿意,因为人类的噪杂惹怒了众神。

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God has promised at this point, however, not to destroy all humankind again, So he experiments with a single individual of faith.

但是上帝却在这时保证，再也不摧毁全人类，因此他检验了个人信仰。

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We're going to read these stories with an eye to Israel's adaptation of Near Eastern motifs and themes to sort of monotheize those motifs and themes and express a new conception of God and the world and humankind.

我们将阅读这些故事，并关注,以色列是怎样把一神论从近东时期的宗教主题中分离出来,并创造出一个关于神、世界和人类的崭新观点的。

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The story is explaining how these odd conditions of life came to be as they are, which is not to say that it's the ideal situation or even that it's God's will for humankind these are etiological fables, and they're best read as such.

这个故事解释了，这些奇怪的生活状态,并不是说，这些便是理想的,甚至是根据上帝旨意的生活状态,而是阐述为什么会这样的原因，这是最好的解释。

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