隋唐以后，狗肉地位迅速下降，社会上层人士开始拒食狗肉，而下层普通民众也只有在非正式场合才品尝狗肉。

The upper classes began to reject eating the meat of dogs, while the lower classes tasted it only in informal situations after the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

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如果他们能获得三分之二票数的通过，这就很可能把巴勒斯坦的地位从观察员实体提高到非正式成员国的观察员。

General Assembly where they hold observer status as an 'entity', and if they get a two-thirds majority approval - which is likely - upgrade to 'non-member state' observer.

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