【正文】 the Knowledge of Good and Evil. However, Eve was deceived by Satan who was in the form of a serpent and both Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. After that, they became ashamed of their naked body. The fig leaves which they sewed together did not cover their nakedness. So, God had to kill an innocent animal to provide covering for them. Through Adam and Eve, sin and death entered the world. It became the sin of humankind for the innocent sacrifice because their distrust of God. God’s plan implied that God and God’s words should be trust and obey by everything in the world. Those who disobey God should be ashamed of their sin. Only man trust God, can they relief form sin. What does rainbow symbolize according to the story? The rainbow symbolizes God’s covenant. At first, God saw man being more and more wick. So God decided to destroy mankind except Noah, who was loyal to God. God told Noah to make a wooden ark which would be covered with tar inside and out to avoid the flood which would be sent by him. Noah was also told to take his wife, three sons and their wives, a male and female of every animal by seven. Noah followed God’s order and he survived while other living creatures were all dead in the big flood. When the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ararat, God told Noah to go out and blessed him and his sons. God asked Noah to be fruitful and refill the earth. God also said anyone who kills another human being must forfeit his own life. Then, God established promise with Noah and his descendants after him, never again will all people and animal die from a flood. At last, God put his rainbow as a token of his promise. Why did people want to build a city and a tower? Because many generations after Noah, when the whole earth still spoke the same language, people became more and more bumptious and wanted to make a name of themselves. So they decided to build a city for settling and a tower for worshiping the sun, moon and stars. Actuarially, this was a direct refusal to obey God’s mand to go out and fill the earth, because man chose to worship God’s creation instead of God himself. So later, God mixed up their language, causing them to stop building the city. Therefore, the name of that city became “Babel”, which means confusion。歐洲文化入門提綱整理 一、 Paraphrase （ 2*2=4 4*5=20%） 1. These they endowed with such reckless generosity that all their favours were soon dispensed and none remained for the endowment of man. (are borned with impetuous) 2. Although they had not the remotest idea how to overe this difficulty,they proceeded to fashion man from clay. ( consided deeply ,continued to form man with clay.) 3. They first moulded an image similar in form to the gods.( resemble to) 4. Long he pondered the matter,and finally determined to obtain fire,or die in the attempt.( thought over, in the risk of ) 5. His step was slow and weary,his garments dusty and travelstained,and he seemed almost to stagger beneath the weight of a huge box which rested upon his shoulers.(got dirty through the journey) 6. For the first time,also,Pandora refused to ply with his request.(observe,say yes to) 7. She was juust on the point of giving up in despair when suddenly the refractory knot yielded to her fumbling fingers,and the cord,unrolling,dropped on the floor.(made up her mind to quit disappointedly,give in to her clumsy fingers) 8. The earth was saturated with blood,the rights of hospitality were openly violated,and murder,rape,and theft were mitted on all sides.( was full of /soaked, everywhere/in every direction) 9. After much delay and discussion,the immortals agreed to wash mankind off the face of the earth by a mighty deluge.(drive mankind away) 10. let the earth produce grass,and herbs,and fruit trees,all yielding after their own kind,and it happened.（ grow） 11. Then God said.’let the waters abound with living creatures,and let birds fly above the earth.(be full of ) 12. And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground.(made man with the dust) 13. And God said：‘ A man shall leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife,and they shall be one flesh (stick to /surround) 14. God showed his love for Adam and Eve,by giving them all they needed and more to enjoy life to its fullest.(in the best or most plete way) 15. So God pronounced doom to Lucifer ,saying,’You will be brought down to hell,to the sides of the pits.’(declared the fatal sentence/death to) 16. This decision was a direct refusal to obey God’s mand to go out and fill the earth.(obvious and exact disobey) 17. The people are anizing as one group and since they all speak the same language,nothing they imagine to do will be held back from them.(stop moving forward) 18. The Lord multiplied language on the earth,causing people to scatter abroad.(add/make the number bigger,spread over/scatter all over the world) 二