这些白鹭，圣洁般的形象在书中一次又一次出现，贯穿始终，代表了万物之灵、万物之美。

Those white egrets, ever ministering presences, turn and return throughout the book, representing the brilliance and beauty of everything that is.

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但是如果你们愿意获得被写在那里的文字之灵，你们会发现它将引导你们通往那天国的大门。

But if ye will get the spirit of that written there ye may find it will lead thee to the gates of heaven.

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就像埃比尼泽•斯克鲁奇（狄更斯小说《圣诞颂歌》中的主人公）一样，市场上萦绕着危机的“过去之灵”。

LIKE Ebenezer Scrooge, the markets are being haunted by the Ghost of Crises Past.

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It even, I think, identifies the divine and the human, makes them hard to tell apart;binds them, even while we are being confronted with their difference.

我想，甚至这，使圣与人，难以被分辨，把他们联结在一起，尽管我们也看到,圣与灵之不同。

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