It is to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge because if human beings obtain knowledge, they will be like the gods,and that is unacceptable.

食用智慧树的果实,如果人类得到智慧,将与诸神无二,这当然是不能接受的

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What it suggests is that "tree" is another word for "arbor."

指的就是“tree“是，“arbor“的另一种说法“

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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。

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