So this sort of structural repetition creates a crescendo that leads then to the finaland most devastating plague which is the slaughter of the Egyptian firstborn sons.

所以这种结构上的反复，创造了一种渐渐加强的效果,最终到了最后一个，也是最具毁灭性的瘟疫,对埃及人长子的屠杀。

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Immortality. One way is through your family and its sons who carry forward the family name, so to speak.

永垂不朽,一条路就是通过你的家庭,让儿子们来继承家族的姓氏,也就是说

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Now, this is going to get progressively weirder but I will have to say, as the father of two sons, both sons went through a phase where they explicitly said they wanted to marry Mommy.

现在，事情变得越来越诡异,但我要说，我是两个儿子的父亲，我的两个儿子在性器官期时,都曾明确地说过要娶他们的妈妈。

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Secondly, he had sons. Now, this has to do with the Greek idea about immortality and mortality.

第二,他有儿子,这和希腊人关于,永生和死亡的观念有关

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So, he had sons, beautiful and good, and he lived to see children born to each of them, and these children all grew up, and further.

那么,他有这样的儿子,既英俊又善良,而且他亲眼见证了孙辈人的出生,这些孩童也渐渐长大成人

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Here's what Herodotus says: First, because his city was flourishing, that is his polis, that is the word to read, it's flourishing in his time and he himself had sons both beautiful and good.

下面是希罗多德记录的,首先,根据资料,他的城邦,在那个年代非常繁荣昌盛,他的城邦在他那时非常繁荣,他的儿子们既英俊又善良

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