Public Opinion polls show that a majority of Americans favor health care reform, but several recent surveys also show a decline in approval for the way President Obama is handling the issue.

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It would be quickly ground into flour and used before it even has time to ferment, to quickly offer something to the deity again, to procure favor for the rest of the crop.

很快弄成面粉，还来不及发酵,只为了敬献给神,为了博得神的喜爱，保佑这些庄稼。

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One would be characteristic of semi-nomadic pastoralists: the sacrifice of the first lamb born in the spring to the deity in order to procure favor and continued blessing on the flocks for the spring.

一种是具有半游牧人的特色：,他们把春天里的第一只羊羔献给神,为了获得神的偏爱,来年春天继续赐福。

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The treatises that he had written in favor of the right to divorce for reasons of incompatibility in the earlier 1640s had scandalized his contemporaries and had especially scandalized his Puritan contemporaries on the left.

这些他在17世纪40年代早期所写的因为不能,相互容忍而离婚的权力,让当代人感到厌恶和反感,尤其让当代清教徒的左派反感。

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The Northern Kingdom Israel is going to come in for very, very bad press at the hands of the Deuteronomistic writers which shows that they probably favor or come from Judah So the northern kings are going to be uniformly denigrated.

北方王国以色列将会进入,一个非常坏的形象，在《申命记》作者的笔下,这表明他们可能喜欢或者来自于犹大,那么北方的国王们就全部都被诋毁。

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He greets his former rival and enemy with these words 1 This is in Genesis 33:10-11 If you would do me this favor, accept for me this gift, for to see your face is like seeing the face of God, And you have received me favorably.

他用以下的话来迎接往昔的仇敌,这段话出现在《创世纪》10章第10到11节中1,不然，我若在你眼前蒙恩，就求你从我手里收下这礼物，因为我见了你的面，如同见了神的面，并且你接纳了我。

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