Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor and whereas both houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

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Through the dynamics of the counter-plot, the similes reassure us of what Hartman calls the "graceful coexistence of free will and divine providence."

从这个反计的整个催动力来看，这些比喻向我们再次确认了被哈特曼称为,“自由意志和神圣天意华丽的共存“的结合“

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I mean, coming from New York, anywhere I will be a little bit jaded, but Providence is a nice city.

因为来自纽约，我会对所有地方感到厌倦，但普罗维登斯确实是个不错的地方。

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That's the basic outline of the story of Joseph and his brothers, but one of the important themes of these stories is the theme of God's providence.

这就是约瑟夫和他兄弟们的故事梗概，但是这些故事的一个非常重要的主题是,上帝的冒险。

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Now you may remember what Geoffrey Hartman had argued that the moon represents the power of divine providence, and there's a lot of ways in which this reading makes sense.

你们可能还记得哈特曼曾经争论过,月亮代表的是神圣的天命的力量，有很多理解这段的方式都是有意义的。

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and he's very, very happy to be in Providence and to get to school and stuff.

他很高兴来到普罗维登斯，也很喜欢上学。

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Well, the Providence school system is not one of the best ones in the nation.

普罗维登斯的学校体系算不上是美国最好的体系。

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And I really liked the city of Providence that Brown is located in.

而且，布朗大学坐落于普罗旺斯，我很喜欢这个城市。

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Not on campus, but you can head into Providence,

校园里没有，但是你可以去普罗维登斯，

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I can't help but feel that within the context of the actual story of the Fall, the Fall of Adam and Eve, that the idea of divine providence isn't actually all that comforting.

我觉得在这个故事的实际框架中,关于堕落，亚当夏娃的堕落的来龙去脉中的，上帝的天命的思想并不那么让人舒坦。

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So, this is my question to you: how complete and perfect is the image of Providence that hovers moonlike over the pages of Paradise Lost?

因此，我的问题是：，这里如月亮一般,在的字里行间反复出现的天意的形象,到底是有多么的完整和美好？

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I'm convinced that it's the reader's job to apply the same degree of critical scrutiny, a kind of Galilean critical scrutiny, to the image of Providence that will be elaborated, as you will see, at extraordinary length in Book Three of Paradise Lost.

我相信，把同等程度的细致的挑剔的观察,一种伽利略式的吹毛求疵的观察精神，运用到对将要被详细说明的天命的形象上去，是读者该做的事，你们往后会发现，卷三里洋洋洒洒写了很多。

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where you tutor and are mentor for a refugee kids in the Providence community.

我们的任务就是给普罗维登斯的难民儿童提供辅导和指导。

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so we try and make public school systems better for children in Providence.

所以，我们希望能改善公立学校的体系，让其更好地为普罗维登斯的孩子们服务。

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Hartman's absolutely right to insist that no theological concept is as important to Paradise Lost as free will on the one hand and divine providence on the other.

哈特曼有绝对的权利坚持说任何神学的概念,在中的意义都不足与匹敌自由意志的重要性,也不足以和神圣的天命相比。

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The similes are for him instrument in the poem's larger agenda to reinforce our faith in the coexistence of free will and divine providence -- difficult, huge concepts.

这些比喻在这首诗更深的议程中是作为工具,来深化我们对自由意志和神圣天命的共存,所持的信念--这是两个艰深宏大的概念。

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The question of providential justice is of course of primary significance to Milton's poem, but Hartman goes on to say that the moon, which reminds us of a calm and perfect sense of Providence, also works to guarantee the principal of free will.

这里，关于天佑的公平的问题,是其对于弥尔顿的诗最基本的重要性，但是哈特曼接着又说月亮是，这提醒了我们天意的冷静和完美感，月亮在这儿也是为了保障自由意志的原则。

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Now, scholars are ingenious in their ability to skirt absolutely the central conundrum of Providence that this poem raises ; and which it raises so insistently and really refuses to let go of; but that doesn't mean that the problem just goes away.

学者们非常精明的,在这首诗里体现出的天意的中心问题上打擦边球,这个观点如此坚决我们无法弃之不管;,但那并不意味着问题就这样解决了。

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He's a great kid. He's actually one of my best friends in Providence.

他很优秀。他其实已经成为了我在普罗维登斯的一位好朋友。

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The very idea of divine providence, when it's injected into the story of Adam and Eve's perfectly disastrous choice to eat the apple, seems to arouse in a lot of us feelings of injustice.

天命的想法，当深深植入到亚当夏娃的故事中,植入到他们决定偷吃禁果的毁灭性的决定里去时，似乎让我们有种不公平的感觉。

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The uncertain status of divine providence here, I think, is made clear by its figuration as a moon.

这里神圣的天意的不确定的地位，被月亮这个比喻表现的更为清晰。

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Chris? Ah, yeah, he lives in South Providence.

克里斯吗？好的。他住在南普罗维登斯。

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and also there's the mall in Providence

而且普罗维登斯还有一个购物中心，

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