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The second reason I undertook this is because I'm concerned about the rise of fundamentalism, religious fundamentalism,
第二个原因我决定这样做，是因为我对基督教基本教义的兴起有兴趣，
and people who say they take the Bible literally, which is, according to some polls, as high as 45 or 50 percent of America.
很多人声称他们完全依照圣经。根据调查有百分之45或50的美国人，按着圣经的教导过生活。
So I decided, what if you really did take the Bible literally?
所以我决定看看，真正依照圣经教导行事会怎样?
I decided to take it to its logical conclusion and take everything in the Bible literally, without picking and choosing.
我决定接受它和它的逻辑上的推论，接受一切圣经上字面的说法，不去挑选。
The first thing I did was I got a stack of bibles. I had Christian bibles. I had Jewish bibles.
首先，我找到一堆圣经。我有基督教圣经。我有犹太教圣经。

A friend of mine sent me something called a hip-hop bible, where the twenty-third Psalm is rendered as,
我的一个朋友送我一本叫做“嘻哈圣经”，其中诗篇第23中所称
"The Lord is all that," as opposed to what I knew it as, "The Lord is my shepherd."
“神是一切”，相对的，就我所知应该是“神是我的”。
Then I went down and I read several versions, and I wrote down every single law that I could find.
然后我阅读了几个版本，并且我写下每一我能找到的律法。
And this was a very long list -- over 700 rules.
这是一个很长的清单--超过700条律法。
And they range from the famous ones that I had heard of -- The Ten Commandments, love your neighbor, be fruitful and multiply.
并且这些包含一些有名的律法，一些我曾经听过的--“十戒”、“爱你的邻人”、“多结果子和生养众多”。
So I wanted to follow those. And actually, I take my projects very seriously,
所以我要遵循这些。我很认真执行这个计划
because I had twins during my year, so I definitely take my projects seriously.
因为这年我生了双胞胎，所以我确实认真的执行这计划。
But I also wanted to follow the hundreds of arcane and obscure laws that are in the Bible.
但是我想按照这上百条在圣经中神秘且晦涩的律法。
There is the law in Leviticus, "You cannot shave the corners of your beard."
这些是在利未记中的律法--“胡须的周围不可损坏。”
I didn't know where my corners were, so I decided to let the whole thing grow, and this is what I looked like by the end.
我不知道哪里是我的周围，所以我决定留胡须，这是我最后看起来的样子。
As you can imagine, I spent a lot of time at airport security.
你可想而知，我花了很长的时间在机场安检部门。
My wife wouldn't kiss me for the last two months. So, certainly the challenge was there.
最后的两个月，我太太不肯亲我。所以，当然这是一项挑战。

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演讲简介：

在最近的EG会议上，身兼作家、哲学家、爱开玩笑的人和记者的A.J.Jacobs，分享了关于这一年依照圣经指导原则生活的经验--尽可能的依照圣经的规范过生活。