You could argue that both Southerners and Northerners shared a certain degree of old-fashioned American localism, attachment to place.

你可以争辩说南方人和北方人,都有一点,旧式的美国地方主义,依恋着所处的地方

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Some scholars have even speculated that Christians may have been the first to do this, because they were arguing with their friends,the Jews.

有些学者甚至推测,基督教徒是首先这样做的，因为他们在和犹太朋友争辩时。

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It's not my purpose or intention here to try to argue you out of your religious beliefs or to argue against your religious beliefs.

但那不是我的目的,我不会因为你的宗教信仰和你争辩,或者跟它对立。

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In the debates ranging for the last thirty years or so over the value of traditional pedagogy and over the value of canonical reading lists, Milton is always cited, invariably cited, as the canon's most stalwart representative of oppressive religious and social values.

过去30多年来，在传统教育学和权威必读书目,对价值的争辩中，米尔顿总是，无一例外的，被看做是英国文学经典中,宣扬压迫性的宗教社会价值的最坚定代表。

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Of course,these are also theological matters, and so I'm not trying to say anything here today to argue you out of the theological conviction that God will resurrect the body or God will transplant your personality into some new angel body, but if you believe in the personality theory, that will be you,or what have you.

当然，这些也是神学上的问题，我今天不会和你争辩,上帝能复活肉体或者将人格移植,进入新的某个天使的肉体，但如果你相信人格理论，那还是将成为你。

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