And what I recognized was first of all, how impoverishing that was spiritually to not be able to bring my faith identity into the public square.

而我意识到,第一，我们精神上很枯竭,因为我们不能将自己的宗教身份,带入公共场所。

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So in the time of declining resources, we might look what we were doing with what we get in return for it.

在资源逐渐枯竭的时刻，倒是可以看看我们的付出到底得到了什么。

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And No.2, I think that it wasn't just spiritually impoverishing personally.

第二，我认为那不只是,个人的精神枯竭。

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Barth wrote a famous essay just the year before these stories came out all in one volume. They had been written over a series of years, got a lot of exposure--called "The Literature of Exhaustion."

在写完这一卷故事的前一年,巴斯写了一篇著名的论文，在60年代，叫《枯竭的文学》

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Nuclear power, for example, may be our salvation when we run out of oil--or virtually run out of oil-- it seems to be coming up over the next several decades-- we're going to have to do that, we're going to need nuclear power.

比如说核能,在石油资源枯竭,或快要枯竭的时候,也许再过几十年,这一天就会来临,核能可能成为我们的救世主,那时我们就需要核能源了

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