And so all the time these different gods from different places were basically all said to be simply different cultural representations, different names, for what were generally the same gods all over the place.

所以不同地区的不同神祇,都被认为只是不同的文化表象，不同的名字，大体上都是相同的神。

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It is much better to have the appearance than the reality of religion.

拥有宗教的表象,比拥有其实质要好得多。

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They're not actually present in the real world of Milton's hell, or if it's a pagan god who's mentioned, Milton will tell us that the pagan god was just an early manifestation of one of the fallen angels.

事实上他们没有在弥尔顿笔下的地狱中出现，或者作为异教的神被提及，弥尔顿将告诉我们那些异教的神只是堕落天使中,一名天使早期的表象。

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Let me start out by putting what I think is a relatively controversial proposition on the table and that's that this investment management business, when stripped down to its bare essentials, is really quite simple.

让我从一个,相对争议的话题开始,投资管理业务,当剥离种种表象追溯到其本质时,其实非常简单

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