India's move to buy gold from the IMF is also seen as part of an effort to assert its greater role in world economic affairs.

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Again, this is just his personal ambivalence about who he was, and his uncertainty about the role that he had in his own family So, this was a play-acting that was part of his life.

这也表明他对自己的身份的矛盾,以及自己在家庭中的角色的不确定,所以,这种角色扮演成为他生活的一部分

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If Hughes is correct, this is part of him saying that being a czar is more than just dressing up, and playing the role, and going to fancy dances, and hanging around with fancy people who don't do a damn thing.

如果休斯是对的,他的这一部分性格说明了,作为沙皇不仅仅要衣着华丽,扮演沙皇的角色 参加华丽的舞会,和贵族上层一起消磨时光,整日无所事事

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