They had to obey whether they would or not.

他们不得不遵从他们的意愿。

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They had to obey , whether they would or not .

不管他们愿不愿，他们必须服从。

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Gabrielle never picked up. She was too busy watching her children being told they had to obey their mother... And trying not to smile.

Gabrielle压根没接电话，她忙着照看听话的孩子们，还要掩藏嘴角的笑容。

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So, there's a wonderful thirteenth-century commentator that says that God needed creatures who could choose to obey him, And therefore it was important for Adam and Eve to do what they did And to learn that they had the choice not to obey God so that their choice for God would become endowed with meaning.

十三世纪有一位著名的评论家说,上帝需要有能力选择遵从他的生物，因此，夏娃亚当做他们所做的事情很重要,并发现他们可以选择不遵从上帝,那么他们对上帝的遵从便有了意义。

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You had to wear this very strange uniform and obey all the rules, and although they fed the children well and gave them a good education, they were so rigid and so strict!

BBC: Last Updated: Thursday October 08 2009 15:19 GMT