He was a slight, intense man who had studied ballet and, though an American citizen, had served in the Israeli Army.

他身材纤瘦，感情丰富，学过芭蕾舞，虽然是美国公民，却在以色列当过兵。

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Opponents of the proposals said taking soldiers' guns away would undermine the military and could open the door to abolishing Switzerland's citizen army all together.

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This is no different than what traditional newsrooms do but now, instead of a handful of professional reporters filing stories, Digg has a citizen army of thousands looking for headlines.

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NATO, it would need a quite different kind of armed forces: mobile troops useful for peacekeeping, for example, rather than a citizen army and secret arms dumps in forests.

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