One social class does not owe anything to another and we should not feel guilty about pursuing financial interests.

一个社会阶层对另一个阶层并没有亏欠,而且我们也不必为追求经济利益,感到内疚

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It didn't serve the dynastic interests of the dynasty, which he identified with the Russian people.

全然没有为王朝的利益服务,而这点上他和俄国人民的看法一致

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The portrait of humans that emerges is that Humans are unimportant menials. They are the slaves of the gods, The gods have little reciprocal interest in or concern for them, And they create human beings to do the work of running the world.

接着便出现了对于人类的描绘,人类是卑微的仆人，他们是上帝的奴隶，上帝与他们没有共同利益，也并不关心他们，他们创造了人类是为了让他们接下治世的苦活。

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But Russia itself has no worse loss for the United States right now could find ways to keep us so tight down in the Middle East for a decade that we could do nothing else.

俄罗斯现在还没有对美利益造成太大损害,有办法,让我们紧紧围绕在中东问题上,在十年内我们只有束手无策。

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