Well, my usual style of programming would be to implement the one that's lowest down in the hierarchy near the bottom.

一般我的编程风格是,先构建等级中最低的东西,也就是靠近地层的东西。

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Is it in the collective memory that people remember three centuries later that the Catholic Church was identified, at least as a hierarchy, with the Vichy Regime in World war II?

到二战时 宗教战争已经过去了三百年,在村民的大众记忆中是否因为等级制度,仍将天主教和二战中的维希政府视为一丘之貉

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