So there is this sense in which the story of a developing writer is the story of someone learning even before they learn how to control language fully that language has these capacities.

书要讲给我们的,其实就是有关理查学习的过程,告诉我们语言在还无法很好被控制的时候,就已经有能力改变理查的生活。

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I knew the storyline before I went, but when the lights went down, and then the story came out.

我去看之前就知道故事情节了，但当灯光暗下来，演出开始，

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But the story as it stands reiterates a motif that we've seen before: that of the threatened destruction of God's creation, or God's people by chaotic waters, and of divine salvation from that threat.

但是这段故事不断的重读我们前面见到过的一个主题：,上帝子民被汹涌的水所威胁,人们不断从那些威胁中的到拯救。

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So in the story Dudley is there, pen knife in hand, but instead of the prayer or before the prayer, he says "Parker, would you mind?"

故事里达德利手拿小刀，没有做祷告，或是在做祷告前，他说，派克，介意我们杀你吗“

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And before we go into some of the technicalities of the class such as the syllabus, I want to end with a story about Peter Drucker.

在我们开始讲本课程的一些细节比如教学大纲之前，我想先讲一个关于Peter，Drucker的故事。

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