Their observance protects the holy object from profanation, from being profaned, reverting from holy status back to common status.

它们按照惯例保护着神圣的东西不受亵渎，不受玷污，不让它们重新回归世俗。

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The thousand liveried angels - begin to cast their special beam on the virgin's outward shape -- that's her body, the unpolluted temple that houses her virginal mind.

一千个穿着衣服的天使,开始在处女的身体上投射他们神奇的光束-,那就是她的身体，那个装着无暇心灵的未受污染的殿堂。

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The only relationship that will work with humans is perhaps one in which there is a balance between unchecked independence and blind obedience, And God seems to find that relationship with Jacob.

唯一与人类建立的有效关系也许是,存在着某一平衡的关系,不受遏制的独立与盲目信仰之间的平衡，上帝好像在雅各布那里找到了这种关系。

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As you develop, as you're educated, you retain all those potentials for a certain point and then you make choices and you lose some of those potentials.

随着你的成长,随着你受的教育的增加,你某种程度上一直保留着所有这些潜能,然后你作出选择,并且失去一些潜能

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Everybody else is now governed by this legislature.

其他每个人都受立法机关管辖着。

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You shouldn't be able to hear very much either, and it mustn't have been too delightful to breathe out of the thing, although your nose is free, but it's covered by a nose piece.

而且也听不见什么了,同时,戴着头盔呼吸也不是很顺畅,虽然鼻子并不受束缚,但是上面有一块小薄片覆盖着

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It worked for them, they didn't have all these chronic diseases like we have, now they had other challenges, infectious diseases primarily, but they didn't have the chronic diseases like we have, like cancer, heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, etc., and Diabetes particularly.

这曾对祖先们奏效,他们不像我们会得一些慢性疾病,但他们要面对其他的挑战,主要是传染性疾病,但他们不像我们那样受着慢性疾病的困扰,如癌症,心脏病,高血压和高脂血等,特别是糖尿病

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