The idea is that these positions are left wing positions and these positions are right wing positions.

最靠近这里的立场代表左翼分子的立场,而这边则是右翼分子的立场

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As with almost all of the issues of contemporary and political struggle in the seventeenth century, Milton's own views really pull decidedly to the left, to the progressive end of the political spectrum.

和17世纪几乎所有的现代的,政治斗争相伴的是，弥尔顿的观点果断的偏向了左翼，偏向了政治图谱的革新分子一方。

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was viewed as very left-wing by business and very contrary to American values.

富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福,在商界人士的眼中是个十足的左翼分子,他的理念与美国人的价值观相悖离

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