President Obama has been deliberating over military proposals to boost U.S.strength in Afghanistan by as many as 40,000 troops, while the future of Germany's troop presence in Afghanistan was a key issue in the September elections that returned Chancellor Merkel to power.

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Milton's bogey seems to be the specter hovering over women poets or women writers who may find in Milton an identification of poetic strength with masculinity itself.

弥尔顿的惑众谣言似乎是指依附在女诗人,和女作家心中的幽灵，她们在弥尔顿身上发现,诗的力量与男性力量本身是同源的。

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Come, let me lead thee ramparted Uruk, To the holy Temple, abode of Anu and Ishtar, Where lives Gilgamesh, accomplished in strength And like a wild ox lords it over the folk."

来吧，让我带你一起去乌鲁克城，住在Anu，和，Ishtar神庙，去到那吉尔伽美什,倚仗他和野牛一样的力量统治着的地方“

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