But these were not problems brought on by the Romans, these were local problems, and part of it was precisely because the Jews had been recognized by the Romans as having a special status in some places, and this caused some kind of local resentment.

但这些问题都不是罗马人引起的，都是当地问题，部分原因是犹太人被罗马人认可,在某些地方拥有特殊地位，引起了当地人的仇视。

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Because it was precisely because of this one world, run by the Romans and maintained by the Romans, that allowed the spread of Christianity, to a great extent, both ideologically and thought-wise, as well as simply physically.

因为正是由罗马人统治维持的，这个统一的世界，给予基督教在大范围面积内广为传播的机会，不仅是在意识形态和智慧方面，还有物质条件方面。

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Should it trump all other goods or does toleration reach a point when it ceases to be toleration and becomes in fact a kind of soft nihilism that can extend liberty to everything precisely because it takes nothing very seriously.

它胜过所有的好吗,或是容忍在达到一定的临界点时,就会崩解,而变成某种柔性虚无主义,且几乎援用到所有事物上,因为它对任何事都不是很认真。

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There it wouldn't be possible to invoke an intention because the whole complication of Derrida is precisely to raise the question about not knowing, not being able to voice the differance between difference and differance and not knowing whether Archie is right or whether Edith is right.

这里它不可能引起一个意图,以为德里达的复杂之处恰恰在于,提出一类问题，有关不知道的，说不出来的,像是区别和延异之间的差别,也不知道阿齐和依迪斯谁对谁错。

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