the book of life

基本解释

May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous.
願他們從生命冊上被塗抹，不得記錄在義人之中。
Mimivirus seems to be part of the story of life on Earth – and it may even rewrite the book of life itself.
米米病毒似乎屬於地球生命一族——它甚至也許會改寫生命自身的槼則。
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
我也必不從生命冊上塗抹他的名。且要在我父麪前，和我父衆使者麪前認他的名。

The Nobel Prize committee said the book provides one of the best descriptions of small town life ever written.
And from the titles we know he considered for this book, none of them make that claim "The Life of Richard Wright."
從他爲書起的名字就能知道，沒有人提議書名應該是《理查？萊特的一生》
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節選
Each book, each writer, each voice reflects another thread in the rich tapestry of human experience, human response to life and its puzzles, human reflection on the sublime and the depraved.
每本書，每個作者，每種聲音,反映了紛繁人類歷程畫卷中的一個側麪,人類對生活和生活睏惑的反應，人類對高尚和腐敗的思考。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選

So I had their - what we call the book of life and I am telling them story after story.
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