Now, texts from Ancient Near Eastern cultures suggest that a central function of the rituals that were performed in sanctuaries was to secure the perpetual aid and blessing of a well-disposed deity.

古近东文化的课文中提出,在圣所里进行的仪式的一个主要功能,是保证能够向神灵获得永久地帮助和祝福。

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What is Socrates trying to do here, and what is that metaphor, ? that central metaphor, ? what function does it serve within the work?

苏格拉底倒底想干吗，那个隐喻，那个核心隐喻是啥，它在本书中有啥功用？

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It was a feat Morgan and his crew would repeat across the industrial landscape, arranging new equilibrium conditions and regulatory mechanisms in one sector after the other, filling in for a non-existent central banking function (the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, marking the start of a whole new story).

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Apparently the leaders of the Eurozone are not ready to do what is nececcessary to keep the Euro together, and as long as the ECB does not function as a true central bank dictating monetry policy, but it is left at the hands of politicians and the politics of re-election, there is no salvation for the single currency.

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For one thing, it gives the impression that the central bank knows more about the world, or even about its own reaction function, than it really does.

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