It is therefore logical to conceive of ways to use them for productive purposes, much as the Bible exhorts its readers to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

• 因此，设想为提高生产率而使用它们仅仅只是逻辑上的，这非常像圣经告诫读者要化干戈为玉帛。