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.
愿他们从生命册上被涂抹，不得记录在义人之中。
Mimivirus seems to be part of the story of life on Earth – and it may even rewrite the book of life itself.
米米病毒似乎属于地球生命一族——它甚至也许会改写生命自身的规则。
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.
我也必不从生命册上涂抹他的名。且要在我父面前，和我父众使者面前认他的名。

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."
从他为书起的名字就能知道，没有人提议书名应该是《理查？莱特的一生》
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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.
每本书，每个作者，每种声音,反映了纷繁人类历程画卷中的一个侧面,人类对生活和生活困惑的反应，人类对高尚和腐败的思考。
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So I had their - what we call the book of life and I am telling them story after story.
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