"There's a new recognition in the global debate that while security efforts in Afghanistan are exceedingly important,critical, we can never succeed if we don't manage to build a basic state with basic governance that can provide basic security in the area between Central Asia and South Asia,".

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He believed strongly that archaeological findings were important external evidence for the basic historicity and authenticity of, for example, the patriarchal stories.

他坚信，考古发现对基本的历史真实性和,比方说族长故事的可信性来说,都是重要的外部证据。

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That's the basic outline of the story of Joseph and his brothers, but one of the important themes of these stories is the theme of God's providence.

这就是约瑟夫和他兄弟们的故事梗概，但是这些故事的一个非常重要的主题是,上帝的冒险。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It is structured and ordered into a few basic regime types. In this I take it to be one of the most important propositions and ? insights of political science. Right? So far?

它是经建构与安排成,数种基本的政体类型，这个在我看来,是其中一个最重要的政治科学主张与见解,还好吗，到目前为止还懂吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

What I'm going to do is focus on a couple basic things that turn out to be really important for general applications, and then I'll talk not in too much detail about a few applications of DNA that you're probably familiar with to try to give you a framework to hang this on.

我要重点讲一些基础知识,这些知识在一般应用中十分重要,然后我会简略的讲讲,关于DNA的一些应用,你们可能已经比较熟悉了,我只是试着给你们打一个框架

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