The similes work not to sew everything up but make it impossible for us to maintain anything like the official position on a moral distinction between heavenly good and satanic evil.

这些比喻不是为了简单的拼凑，而是让我们不能,维持住任何天堂之善与撒旦之恶之间的,清晰的官方界限。

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If you make three people-- or even better, four people a day feel good and they make-- they pay it forward and make four others feel good, and so on and so on.

如果你能让三个人-,甚至四个人度过美妙的一天-,他们会推展，让四人有美好的一天，以此类推。

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He's going to ameliorate their conditions, he's going to make their slavery on his plantations so effective, so good, such a even joyous form of labor, that he will be doing God's work by improving slavery.

他会改善奴隶们的生活条件,他会让自己种植园的奴隶们,提高工作效率,优化管理模式,奴隶甚至是一种令人享受的工作,他会按照上帝的旨意提升奴隶的生活水平

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