If we remain inveterate smokers, it is only because we have so often experienced the frustration that results from failure.

假如我们仍有根深蒂固的抽烟习惯，这仅仅是因为我们一次次经历了由戒烟失败所导致的挫折。

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But China's financial system is not without problems. It is only because the Chinese Banks did not have the highly leveraged investment-related risks.

但是中国的金融体系并非没有问题，只不过我们的银行没有做高杠杆的风险投资。

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"You can buy local honey. Local honey is available at stores only because there is a local beekeeper who went to the trouble of harvesting it, so the more beekeepers there are, the more honey there is.

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On the contrary, he emphasizes, it is only because the wickedness of the Canaanites is so great that the Lord has to drive them from his land, and now he is giving you a chance.

相反，他强调，正是因为迦南人昭著的罪恶,上帝才将他们从他的土地上驱逐出去，现在他给你一个机会。

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Because the difference here is that it's posited not only that this God is the only power but that he is only good. And that was not the case with the metadivine realm. Right? That was morally neutral.

因为区别在于这里的上帝不仅是,唯一的能量来源，他也是唯一的神，这和超神领域,没有任何的联系，以色列的上帝在道德上是中立的。

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