God prefers the offering of Abel, and as a result, Cain is distressed and jealous to the point of murder.

上帝更喜欢亚伯的献祭，结果，该隐痛苦和嫉妒到了起杀心的地步。

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He saw Abel as a rival who had received something that he wanted badly for himself.

他视亚伯为竞争对手，因为对方得到一些他自己极想得到的东西。

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Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. Abel, on the other hand, offered to the Lord from the very best of his flock.

“该隐拿地里的出产为供物献给耶和华”，另一方面，亚伯却从羊群中拣选最好的来献给神。

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Even such Cain-and-Abel types as Raymond Hood, a hard-drinking visionary architect, and John Todd, the authoritarian teetotaller that Rockefeller hired as his chief developer, became good business buddies.

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To continue the interpretation, the story of Cain and Abel may be taken as an illustration of the zero-sum game of primogeniture, as well as an allegory for the slaughter of nomadic pasturage by urban agriculture.

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