Felgenhauer says decisions about such matters in Russia are made behind closed doors and are not always fully thought through, which he characterizes as a feature of authoritarian regimes.

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Read everything you can, Milton insists, because only then can you overcome what he thinks of and characterizes as the temptation of reading.

尽可能地阅读，弥尔顿坚持到，因为只有这样你才能抵抗他认为以及标榜为的,阅读对人产生的诱惑。

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And indeed, as we shall see, well, the tragic view of life, which the Greeks invent and which characterizes their culture, is there right at the beginning in the Iliad and the Odyssey.

确实,我们可以看到,悲剧人生观,在伊利亚特和奥德赛的一开始就有所体现,这是希腊人首先提出的,体现了他们的文化性格

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