One thinks of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, for example, in which the central character, Paul Morel, is crippled by an Oedipus complex that he can't master and the difficulties and complications of the plot are of this kind.

拿D。H。劳伦斯的《儿子与情人》来说，里面的核心人物保罗，被自己不能控制的俄狄浦斯情节困扰,复杂多变的情节也就由此展开。

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And so he explains to the master: I knew thou was't an hard man which reapest where thou sowedst not and gatherest where thou strawest not.

他对主人解释：,我知道你不是个努力的人,你收获不是你播种的。

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The Cain and Abel story which is in Genesis 4:1 through 16 this is the story of the first murder, and it's a murder that happens despite God's warning to Cain that it's possible to master the urge to violence by an act of will.

创世纪》第四章，1到16节，讲述的是该隐和亚伯的故事6,这是人类历史上第一宗谋杀案,尽管上帝警告该隐,邪念会让人暴力相向。

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And, in fact, the most dominant proponent of the view is our very own Frank Keil, master of Morse College at Yale, who has strongly defended the notion of an intuitive biological module.

事实上,这个观点最主要的支持者,是我们学校的弗兰克·凯尔,耶鲁莫尔斯学院的院长,他为直觉生物学模块做出了有力的辩护

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In other words, the effort of a reader in coming to terms with the meaning of a text is an effort to master the subject matter, what is there, what the text is really about.

也就是说读者为理解文本,做出的努力,就是来掌握事情本身，存在的努力，掌握文本究竟是关于什么的努力。

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