Twenty million visit the city every year. City officals also point out that there are thousands of unofficial residents of Venice: students and island inhabitants who don't officially register.

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Is he sincere in saying this, in making this point or his he somehow being ironical in his use of the religious tone ? or the religious register?

他说那些话时，是否诚恳地反应其论点,或他只是故做讽刺,才使用那些宗教论调,或是宗教语言？

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