There are disagreements even among Puritans about which state, virginity or married chastity, is the superior one in the eyes of God.

甚至清教徒们都执不同意见,关于到底童贞还是贞节，才是上帝看来更优良的状态。

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I mean,there's no way that you can expect somebody quarter in and quarter out or month in and month out to produce superior returns.

我的意思是,你无法,靠只持续了一季度的投资,或月进月出的方式来获得巨额收益

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Again, each of them seems to represent, in a superior way, the key components of the human soul, the appetitive, the war-like or spirited, and the rational.

每一位角色，似乎都代表着，较优秀的人类灵魂的关键构成要素，欲望，战士精神，以及理性。

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God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

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We should note that this notion, or this idea of a god who can even make and keep an eternal covenant is only possible on the view that God's word and will are absolute, insusceptible to nullification by some superior power or some divine antagonist.

需要注意的一点是,神可以签订和遵守契约,只有可能是，上帝言语和意愿是不可违背的,并不会因为高级权力和强大对手而受到影响。

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