If he had only known then the dreadful things that were to happen to him on account of his disobedience!

要是他能知道，因为不听话将会面临什么可怕的事情，那就好了！

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It takes several days before a check is cashed and funds are withdrawn from the issuer's account, which means that the writer of the check can cam interest on the funds in the meantime.

兑现支票和从开支票人的账户中提取资金需要几天的时间，这就意味着开支票的人可以同时从资金中获得利息。

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Sorry that I cannot go to the airport to pick you up in person on account of stomach ache.

很抱歉我不能亲自去机场接你，因为我肚子痛。

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" ...on account of the number of pine trees that grow in the gorge of the mountain in which it is situated.

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So we need to revise our account of what it is on the physicalist picture to say that you're dead.

我们应该重新修改一下,物理主义学上对死亡的定义。

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One thing that most people do in fact agree on is that the oldest account of the event is a poetic fragment 12 that's found in Exodus 15, verses one to 12, in particular.

大家都同意的一点事,这个故事的最老版本来自于诗残本,尤其体现在《出埃及记》15中的诗1和。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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