but a Catholic could have written Wise Blood even though it is

除了天主教徒没有人能写出《智血》
a book about a kind of Protestant saint.

即便它是本关于新教圣徒的书
It reduces Protestantism to the twin ultimate absurdities of the Church

它把新教教义简化为两条终极谬论
without Christ or the Holy Church of Christ without Christ,

没有基督的教堂没有基督的圣教堂
which no pious Protestant would do, and of course no unbeliever or

没有一个虔诚的新教教徒会那样做当然不信仰者
agnostic could have written it because it is entirely redemption

或不可知论者都不会写它因为这完全是在
centered in thought.

思想中心上的救赎
Not too many people are willing to see this, and perhaps it is hard to

没有太多人愿意看到这一幕或许这很难看到
see, because Hazel Motes is such an admirable nihilist.

因为黑泽尔.莫茨是如此令人钦佩的虚无论者
His nihilism leads him back to the fact of his redemption,

他的虚无论使得他回到了他救赎的事实
however, which is what he would have liked so much to get away from.

然而那正是他竭力想摆脱的
When you start describing the significance of a symbol like the

当你开始描述一种象征的重要性