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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Abel is not mentioned in the Old Testament except in Genesis 4. St. Augustine makes him as one who loves ideas of justification, and Cain a man of nature.

旧约里并没有提到亚伯，除了在创四中，圣奥古斯丁将他塑造为一个热爱公正思想的人，而该隐是一个有天性的人。

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Cain himself is referred to only twice more, in the New Testament, as "the prototype of the wicked man."

在新约中，该隐作为“恶人的原型”只被提到两次。

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And ironically you sense, when you read this that even though Cain intends this as a rhetorical question "Am I my brother's keeper?"--in fact, he's right on the money.

当读到这一段的时候，你能感觉到其中的讽刺意味,尽管该隐的回答是一个设问句,“难道我是他的看守吗？“，事实上，指钱的话，他说的是对的。

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Meanwhile the Guardian's Jon Ronson is bemused that after concluding his whole family are ambiverts - which Cain defines as a mixture of extrovert and introvert - the group barely gets a mention in the book.

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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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So quote the talking horse they did, among them esteemed writers such as Jennie Rees of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Glenye Cain Oakford of the Daily Racing Form.

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