三个纯朴的年轻人离开乡下，来到这座大城市，他们心目中向往的“天堂”，不料却坠入充满罪恶的地狱。

Three innocent young men leave the countryside for the "paradise" of the big city, but descend into a world of crime.

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这种转变Lawless在某种程度上把它归功于对炼狱信奉的开始。因为炼狱是个存在于天堂和地狱之间的中间地带，一个可以洗净罪恶的地方。

Lawless credits that, in part, to the rise in the belief of Purgatory, an interim space between heaven and hell where SINS could be purged.

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根据民间故事，杰克去世后，他被拒绝进入天堂，因为他的罪恶行径，但他也拒绝进入地狱，因为他骗了魔鬼。

According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil.

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They are individual creatures who seem really to be in hell just as they seem really to have been in heaven; but the figures of Sin and Death, they are entirely different animals.

他们是独立的生灵，身处于地狱,也曾经生活在天堂;,但是罪恶之神和死神却是两个完全不同的生物。

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And this new pharaoh will enslave the Israelites, and so embitter their lives, that their cry will rise up to heaven the same cry from the generation of the flood, the same cry from Sodom and Gomorrah.

这个新法老将会迫使以色列人为奴，他如此激怒他们，他们的哭号传至天堂,就像大洪水时期一样的哭号，像来自罪恶之城俄摩拉城一样的哭号。

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