She can't get in to heaven anyway. So she says: "Dear Mary: I am a bastard and a bastard shall not enter the kingdom of heaven as we all know. But I have this personality that makes boys follow me.

反正她是怎样也升不进天堂的，所以，她写道，亲爱的玛丽：,我是一个私生子，我不能进入天堂,众所周知，但我拥有吸引男孩的独特个性。

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And this new pharaoh will enslave the Israelites, and so embitter their lives, that their cry will rise up to heaven the same cry from the generation of the flood, the same cry from Sodom and Gomorrah.

这个新法老将会迫使以色列人为奴，他如此激怒他们，他们的哭号传至天堂,就像大洪水时期一样的哭号，像来自罪恶之城俄摩拉城一样的哭号。

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So much of the pathos of Satan's fallen condition involves his painful memory of that blissful state in heaven from which he had fallen.

很多撒旦堕落后的悲怆,夹杂了他憾失此前在天堂的幸福生活的,苦痛的回忆。

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The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me: Yes! that was the reason In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling Annabel Lee And killing my Annabel Lee.

天使，不再如在天堂般快乐，于是把我和她妒嫉：,对，那便是原因，众所周知，在大海边的王国里）,云中刮起了寒风,冻杀了我的。

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Suppose someone proposed that up in heaven and someone else might say, well that's not going to work so well, that's like a kibbutz--like one of the kibbutzim.

假设天堂里有人提议要求绝对均等,然后就有其他人会说，这提议不太可能行得通，比如集体农场的人就可能这么说。

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So let's listen to Mozart's depiction of hell and heaven here.

那么,让我们来听下莫扎特,在这里对地狱和天堂的描述吧

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Now, after all, even if you believe that, well, your soul will go to heaven so you won't cease to exist as a person, you might still believe that your body will die.

说到底，即便你相信，自己的灵魂会上天堂,所以作为个人不会死亡，你还是会相信自己的身体是会消亡。

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The heaven in this poem is so far from being the incorporeal - the spiritual heaven of orthodox Christianity that you have an image of an actual orgy, the festal orgy raging under the thyrsus .

这首诗所描绘的天堂与正统基督教所宣扬的,非物质的，精神的天堂是如此大相径庭,弥尔顿描绘了一副纵欲狂欢的场景,在神杖下纵欲狂欢。

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So something non-bodily went to heaven.

所以某种非肉体的东西去了天堂

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Do you think I should neck or not? I shall not enter the kingdom of heaven anyway so I don't see what difference it makes.'" And then she writes back, Mary Brittle: "Dear Sabbath: Light necking is acceptable, but I think your real problem is one of adjustment to the modern world.

你认为我是该做还是不该做，我反正都上不了天堂了,因此，我认为做不做都无所谓，之后她给她回信了，玛丽-巴瑞特，亲爱的萨巴斯，你的做法是可接受的，但我认为,你真正的问题是无法融入现代社会。

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so dear to heaven is saintly chastity that heaven doesn't even permit virgins to die.

圣洁的贞操对上天来说很珍贵,以至于上天几乎不允许处女死去。

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For all we know, Ivan Ilyich still believes in souls, believes he's going to go to heaven and so forth.

我们都知道，Ivan，Ilyich始终相信，自己的灵魂会上到天堂。

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