When he's in the army, he can get rid of Jesus by converting not to evil, but to nothing, to believe in nothing.

当他当兵的时候，以不去向罪恶堕落，选择做一个虚无主义者的方式。

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And this is seen by the original nihilists as a good thing.

这在最初的虚无主义者们看来不失为件好事

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Not too many people are willing to see this, and perhaps it is hard to see, because Hazel Motes is such an admirable nihilist.

没有很多人想看，或者说是也许很难看到这封信，因为Hazel，Motes是,如此一个的虚无主义者。

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I would argue that there is a direct line from the Enlightenment philosophy to nihilism, that is to say a philosophy that says there are no limits to what human beings may do.

我得说启蒙哲学和虚无主义哲学,还是泾渭分明的,虚无主义者认为,人类的行为是没有限制的

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