At the very center was a hill and on top of the hill the majestic and stunning Temple of Poseidon, which was visible from everywhere in the holy emerald city.

其最中心点是座小山丘，在山顶上是雄伟壮观的波塞冬神庙，在神圣的翡翠城的任何地方都能看到它。

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Was it there as in a holy church?

是像在一个神圣的教堂里那样吗？

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To desecrate a holy spring is considered profanity.

圣泉俗用被认为是亵渎神灵的行为。

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They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay taxes or give as holy offerings to the gods.

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But there has to be two steps: a purification and then a sanctification to make it holy again.

但是这得有两个步骤：,先净化，再圣化。

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Dean had dispatched the occupant of the apartment to the kitchen probably to make coffee while he proceeded with his love problems for to him sex was the one and only holy and important thing in life although he had to sweat and curse to make a living and so on.

安已经把这公寓的人发配到厨房了,也许去煮咖啡，好让他继续进行他的爱事,因为对他来说性是生活中仅有的一桩神圣而重要的事,尽管这样他得边流汗边咒骂来活着。

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Poloma says some people might hear that and say Palin believes this is a holy war, or that Pentecostals think this is a holy war.

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It might be with a gun, an army, a holy book, a law, an invisible free-market hand.

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Fifty kilometres along the train route from Kandy lies the path to Sri Pada, a holy shrine of a much different nature.

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