Uruk, for instance, had two patron gods—Anu, the god of the sky and sovereign of all other gods, and Inanna, a goddess of love and war—and there were others, patrons of different cities.

例如，乌鲁克有两个守护神——阿努，天空之神，是所有其他神的主宰；伊娜娜，是爱与战争女神；还有其他不同城市的守护神。

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Nothing could be as horrific as that, and if you have to fight a war somewhere, you might prefer the sky to the mud.

没有什么可以比你必须在某个地方打仗更令人恐惧的了，你也许更希望选择天空而不是泥地作为战场。

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"The blue sky is my first artwork," he declared, neatly summing up his ambitions to breach the ordinary boundaries of art; no mean feat in post-war Europe.

他曾宣布，“蓝天是我的第一个作品，”干净利落地总结了他试图突破艺术的寻常界限的雄心；这在战后欧洲是了不起的事。

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W. Bush, the non-boomer greatest-generation Bush who, like McCain, was shot out of the sky in a real war.

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