This was a race of manly men, but insolent and impious.

这时的人类雄伟刚毅，但却骄横不虔。

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To be impious is to disrespect those things a person or a society CARES most deeply about.

不虔诚就是蔑视那些，人们或社会最在意的事务。

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If do not have a condition and impious to engaged in, the result is often a predictable end - failure.

如果不具备条件而硬要去从事，结果往往是个可以预知的下场——失败。

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To be impious is to disrespect those things a person or a society cares most deeply about.

不虔诚就是蔑视那些,人们或社会最在意的事务。

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Like Qutb, al-Qaeda's followers perceive Islam to be under a double attack: not just military attack from a hostile West (in Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya and so forth) but also from within, where western values spread by impious regimes are undermining what it means to be a Muslim.

ECONOMIST: In the name of Islam