It seems like it's not a news flash that religion is playing an extremely important part in our public square conversations, in our political life, in how we are making decisions on questions of poverty.

这似乎并非一条简讯,宗教发挥着极其重要的作用,在我们在公共场所的谈话中，在我们的政治生活中，在我们如何针对贫困问题做出决策。

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In this respect, he seems to have followed Spenser -- Edmund Spenser, whose Faerie Queeneis in large part a tribute to the sacrament of marriage, although interestingly The Faerie Queene, the great Spenserian poem, never actually manages to feature a marriage between two human beings.

这样看来，他似乎是,秉承了斯宾塞--埃德蒙·斯宾塞，他的作品《仙后》,很大程度上来说是对婚姻圣礼的颂词，尽管有趣的是，《仙后》,这一伟大的斯宾塞体诗歌，从没有真正意义上,在两人的婚姻中发挥重要作用。

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