There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.

有一件比看见亲生儿女死去更伤心的事，那便是看着他们活受苦。

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He viewed his mission in life as protecting the weak from the evil.

他把保护弱者不受坏人伤害看作自己一生的使命。

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It may mean the exact opposite: sacrificing your life in resistance to evil and injustice, or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed.

降服的意思意思正好相反：是要你奉献生命，反抗邪恶与不义，忍受苦难，为了去改变需要改变的地方。

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It mentions a tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; then goes on to just focus on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

它提到了一棵生命树，一棵分辨善恶的知识树;,接着却重点讲分辨善恶的知识树。

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But now that means there is a serious danger here, and in Genesis 3:22, God says, "Now that man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil , what if he should stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever?"

但在那个时候，意味着，他们将面临很大的困难，《创世纪》第3章第22节，上帝说，现在那个人已经变得与我们相似，能知善恶,现在恐怕他又伸手摘生命树的果子,从此以后长生不老“

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"From today, the Sangatte centre will no longer draw would-be illegal immigrants to northern France and traffickers will no longer be able to use it to ply their evil trade in human life, " Mr Blunkett said.

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Most importantly, show resilience in the face of evil by continuing to live your life in an open, honest, and trusting manner.

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The inhabitants of Bensalem (the word is borrowed from Francis Bacon) give the impression of looking on life as simply an evil to be got through with as little fuss as possible.

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