对长途贸易的依赖也意味着，伟大的中东帝国无论是实际上还是象征意义上，都是建立在流沙之上的。

Dependence on long-distance trade also meant that the great empires of the Middle East were built both literally and figuratively on shifting sand.

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对撒旦来说，上帝的君主制实际上是建立在真正的力量之上的。

For Satan, it turned out that God's monarchy was actually based on genuine strength.

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使用 XNI 的方法与 SAX 是非常相似的（实际上，在 Xerces 中，SAX 解析器是本机 XNI 解析器之上很薄的一层）。

The approach with XNI is very similar to that of SAX. (In fact, in Xerces, the SAX parser is a thin layer on top of the native XNI parser.)

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Perhaps they begin to view their body from up-- floating up above it.

或许他们开始飘浮在自己身体之上,从上往下看

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