But his outreach to the Muslim world, and especially his landmark speech in Cairo in June, are seen by many Israelis as an attempt to appease the Arabs at the expense of the Jewish state.

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He likes to include some snarky comments on the footnotes generally about me at my expense.

他喜欢把我的一些无礼的话,也记录下来，反正都是我说的。

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To write any kind of epic at all might very well seem to be embracing an inappropriately sensual paganism at the expense of the higher discipline of good, old-fashioned monotheistic Christianity.

不论你想写好任何形式的史诗,你都要接受一些不太恰当的异教信仰,违反一些基督教中好的教条，和过时的一神论思想。

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And he argues that indigent citizens, who are unable to provide for themselves, should not be forced to rely simply upon the private charity of individuals but should be maintained at public expense.

对于那些因贫困而无法养活自己的人，他却认为不能让他们，完全依靠私人的慈善救济过活,而应当用国家公共支出,建立相应的保障来维持他们的生活。

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