As I see it, the official function of this simile is to give us a sense of the size of Satan's shield and thereby to give us a sense of the size of Satan himself.

在我看来，这个比喻的正式的作用,是要给我们展现出撒旦的屏障的规模,因此来展现撒旦自身的伟岸。

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It is not in the least to assert that no references may be distorted if advantage can thereby gained.

并不是为了能得到好处,而说所有的参考都是真实的。

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Those people would bank their calories, survive the next famine, contribute to the gene pool, and thereby create what we have today which are organisms, humans, who very much like the kind of diets that are creating problems.

这些人储存能量以保证,在下一次饥荒时得以幸存,使他们的基因保留在了基因库中,从而造就今天的生物体,即人类,人类非常喜欢这类饮食,从而引发了很多问题

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Whatever he removes out of the state that nature has provided, " and left it in, he has mixed his labor with, and joined it to something that is his own, " and thereby makes it his property."

所以只要他使任何东西脱离自然所提供的状态，《政府论》第五章，“论财产“,脱离其现有状态，他就已经掺进他的劳动，在这上面施加了他自己所有的某些东西，因而，使它成为他的财产“

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