Representatives of different nationalities gather in the same hall to discuss affairs of state.

各族人民的代表聚集一堂， 共商国是。

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I'd much rather be a lady, able to own a fine house and not worry about kingship or other such affairs of state.

要是我，我宁愿自己是一个女人，有一座很好的房子，不用担心自己的王权或是这个国家的事务。

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Mr Netanyahu insists that Sara, his third wife and mother of his two sons, keeps scrupulously out of affairs of state.

内塔尼亚胡坚称，萨拉——他的第三任妻子及两个儿子的母亲，小心翼翼地保持着与国家事务的距离。

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Last week, Mr.Hawass announced plans to resign from his position as head of the Ministry of State for Antiquities Affairs.

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It's a pretty state of affairs, in his view, when the most rigorous thinking that's being done about literature is being done in popular journals.

他认为，关于文学的严肃的思考大多,被发表在流行杂志上很不妥当。

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The Protestant Reformation, and especially the rising energies of Puritanism in the early seventeenth century, are beginning to do a lot to change this state of affairs.

新教宗教改革，尤其是活力不断上升的清教主义,在17世纪早期，为了改变这种状态开始做出许多努力。

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And the clearer it is that Mr Mbeki can handle the affairs of state, the easier that succession will be.

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Thus affairs of state matter, because they bear on all these factors.

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The French are not alone in mixing affairs of state and heart.

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