For Ruth to leave her own land is to cut herself off from her family, her friends, and her familiar neighborhood and to leave everything behind.

对路得来说，离开她自己的家乡，等于是离开她的家人、朋友，和所熟悉的环境，把一切留在身后。

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So she cut them off and kept on calling herself the Rev.

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In the process, she gains a deeper understanding of the parts of herself that had been "cut off" by social rules and her own acquiescence in their logic.

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