So these moments of landscape description offer up that consistently Christian-inflected theory of the universe, that sense of transcendence as structure, as something that's moving inexorably, that will take all time to complete.

通过这些景象的描述,我们可以看到一种,一直受到基督教影响的,关于宇宙的理论，这种理论以超自然的感觉为主体，就像一些不为人的意志而转移，需要我们穷其一生去完成的事。

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And your boss can ask you, "Will you be able to complete these tasks on time?"

你的老板可能会问你，“你能准时交付这些任务吗？”

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It was a complete waste of time, unless the goal in life was simply to pester the user for some input.

刚才的时间就完全浪费了，除非那个唯一的目的,是简单地纠缠用户索要一些输入。

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