He says the extent and quality of long-term literacy is important to individual economic success and quality of life in a community and a nation.

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They're associated now with events in the life of the new nation rather than being grounded in the cycles of nature.

他们现在同一个国家的新生联系起来,而不再是简单的自然循环。

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They're partners in the preparation of Israel for their new life, readying Israel for life in God's land as a nation, as a people.

他们一起合作为犹太人的新生活做准备，为上帝应许的地方建立一个国家，一个民族做准备。

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Now,that has changed, for sure; but,the centralization of the French government and the domination of Paris over the life of the nation is very difficult to change, over a long period of time.

现在,情况已经发生了改变,但是法国政府的中央集权化,以及巴黎在国民生活中的支配地位,在相当时间段内,都很难得以改变

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