But what Alexander and his successors did was they made sort of a conscious, propagandistic decision to use religious syncretism to bind together their kingdoms.

但是亚历山大和他的继业者所做的,是决定通过有意的政治宣传，用宗教融合,来维系他们的王国。

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It's just minus the sum of all these things, because of course these are just defined as the work done by the environment to the system.

等于负的这些东西的和，因为它们的定义是,环境对系统所做的功。

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So what O'Connor does, is she presents a sense of the world imbued with structure and meaning, but a structure and meaning that looks essentially blank.

所以奥康纳所做的是，呈现一个充满了构架,和实义感的世界，只不过这些构架和实义,看起来完全是空无一物的。

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