It will be hard, but this is a better way to win the argument against Hamas than the past year's vain efforts to make the Palestinians jump through verbal hoops they have come to consider humiliating.

做到这样很难，但相对于过去这些年里的徒劳无功，这已是赢得民众反对哈马斯的更好方法了，巴勒斯坦人也可以籍此跳出他们已经感到羞辱的口头圈套。

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They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows together.

大家看见马德兰几乎平伏在那一堆骇人的东西下面，两次想使肘弯接近膝头，都没有成功。

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But this is a better way to win the argument against Hamas than the past year's vain efforts to make the Palestinians jump through verbal hoops they have come to consider humiliating.

但相对于过去这些年里的徒劳无功，这已是赢得民众反对哈马斯的更好方法了，巴勒斯坦人也可以籍此跳出他们已经感到羞辱的口头圈套。-翻个大概，不对只能等Frank改了。

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It's magnificent, and every waking moment of a commander-in-chief should be to make sure that people like that's efforts are and their family's sacrifices are not made in vain.

CNN: Thompson's September 7, 2007, speech in Des Moines, Iowa