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发帖数: 2153 | 1 Former President Jimmy Carter has said gay people should be allowed to marry
in civil ceremonies, as ‘Jesus never said a word about homosexuality’.
The latest book by Mr Carter, now 87, entitled NIV Lessons from Life Bible:
Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter, encompasses his views on the Bible
and on gay equality, among other issues. Discussing the book, he told the
Huffington Post gay civil marriages were “very fine” in his view.
Mr Carter said: “Homosexuality was well known in the ancient ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2293 | 2 http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/lin-jun-laid-to-rest-in-his-favour
CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Thursday, Jul. 26, 2012 7:56AM EDT
Last Updated Thursday, Jul. 26, 2012 9:38PM EDT
The parents of Lin Jun, the Chinese exchange student who was brutally killed
and dismembered, laid their son to rest Thursday in the city that he came
to love.
Lin’s family, friends and perfect strangers said goodbye to the 33-year-old
Concordia University student at Montreal’s Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery
Thursday morning... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 3 Sixty-nine percent of respondents say they would like to see a vote on the
issue.
The online survey, published in the weekly magazine Valeurs actuelles, found
86 percent of supporters of France’s major conservative party, the UMP,
favoured a referendum.
Eighty-four percent of supporters for the National Front, the far-right
party, would support a referendum, compared to 55 percent of left-wing
voters.
The French national assembly is due to consider a bill later this month
legalising same-sex mar... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 456 | 4 爱尔兰人=恐同？
Civil partnerships in Ireland, granted under the Civil Partnership and
Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, give same-sex
couples rights and responsibilities similar, but not equal to, those of
civil marriage. Recently, there has been growing discussion on the legal
recognition of same-sex marriage. This would require an amendment to the
Irish Constitution, which is planned to be held in 2015 and which is
supported by about 75% of the Irish people according to polls.
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发帖数: 3096 | 5 Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? Japan is
finding out… Abigail Haworth investigates
Japanese man and woman lean away from each other
Arm’s length: 45% of Japanese women aged 16-24 are ‘not interested in or
despise sexual contact’. More than a quarter of men feel the same way.
Photograph: Eric Rechsteiner
Ai Aoyama is a sex and relationship counsellor who works out of her narrow
three-storey home on a Tokyo back st... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10330 | 6 US cannot sacrifice Taiwan to court the Chinese
By David Pilling
Published: March 30 2011 22:45 | Last updated: March 30 2011 22:45
Should Washington throw the Chinese dog a Taiwanese bone? That is the
essence of a quiet but persistent undercurrent of US thought: that
little Taiwan – with just 23m people – is too big an irritant in Sino-US
relations. Instead of continually annoying China by pledging to defend
it, the argument goes, the US should quietly drop its long-standing
commitment.
US-Sino... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 74 | 7 核心提示： BBC 在22个国家poll了22，500个人，发现巴马受欢迎的程度是老马的四倍。
所有国家的人民都希望巴马上台。最希望巴马上台的是肯尼亚，在这里他领先老马82％
。两人
最接近的国家是印度，但是巴马依然领先9％。
2004年的时候BBC也这么干过，结果除了菲律宾，尼日利亚和波兰都喜欢马脸开。今年
巴马
形式更加喜人， 这三个国家也投靠巴马了。
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7606100.stm
Obama win preferred in world poll
People outside the US would prefer Barack Obama to become US president ahead
of
John McCain, a BBC World Service poll suggests.
Democrat Mr Obama was favoured by a four-to-one margin across the 22,500
people
polled in 22 countries.
In 17 |
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发帖数: 1627 | 8
likely,
Article 23
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and
favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. |
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发帖数: 2428 | 9 I have no problem if someone supports a Chinese decent into US political
system. I just want to warn you, especialy those coummunist or socialist by
heart, that don't get your hopes up because you think those candidate would
return you the favour, simply because you and them are come from the same '
roots'. If you think the rightties here are too hard for you, then wait what
those candidates would say to you when they do get elected.... LOL. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 In Britain, foster parents are being told their Christian morals are harmful
to children:
fost_1837346c.jpgEunice and Owen Johns are a God-fearing Christian
couple, married almost 40 years, who offered a secure and loving family home
to foster children aged between five and 10. But they are to be denied the
opportunity to do so any longer because they are unwilling to promote a
homosexual lifestyle to a child. Neither Mr nor Mrs Johns has anything
against gay people but they are not in favou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Egypt Court Ends Virginity Tests on Female Detainees
Tuesday, 27 Dec 2011 05:16 PM
The Egyptian woman who brought a case against Egypt's army for conducting "
virginity tests" on her and others hailed a court ruling on Tuesday ordering
the military to stop such actions.
Activists say the verdict is a victory for civilian courts over generals who
took charge when Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February and adds pressure on
the army to hold to account troops who have been rebuked by Egyptians and
maj... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 12 Supreme irony? Top court poised to throw out Obamacare in echo of case Obama
made against Hillary Clinton
It is a tad unfortunate that just days after the White House embraced the
term "Obamacare" - previously regarded on the Left as a pejorative label - a
majority of the nine Supreme Court justices have given strong indications
they will rule it unconstitutional.
Even more ironic is that the justices, or five of them at least, look like
they might force President Barack Obama back to the drawin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3975 | 13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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On the BBC a few weeks ago the New York Times pundit David Brooks explained
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发帖数: 3975 | 14 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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On the BBC a few weeks ago the New York Times pundit David Brooks explained
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发帖数: 3975 | 15 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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On the BBC a few weeks ago the New York Times pundit David Brooks explained
to his British audience that American vo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3975 | 16 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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Barack Obama
Barack Obama, whose campaign has a revived momentum. Photograph: Jewel Samad
/AFP/Getty Images
On the BBC a few weeks ago the New York Times pundit David Brooks explained
to his British audience that American vo... 阅读全帖 |
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m****g
发帖数: 3975 | 17 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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Barack Obama, whose campaign has a revived momentum. Photograph: Jewel Samad
/AFP/Getty Images
On the BBC a few weeks ago the New York Times pundit David Brooks explained
to his British audience that American vo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 Stephen Harper: The Canadian prime minister has revolutionised politics in
his homeland
When thinking of Canada, I strongly doubt that the first thing to pop into
most people's heads would be "bastion of political conservatism". Yet in
this liberal country, prime minister Stephen Harper has carved out an
impressive reputation as one of the world's most successful centre-right
leaders.
Through two minority Tory governments (2006 and 2008), and since May 2011 at
the head of a majority government, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 19 Unequal protection
by From the print edition: Briefing
April 25, 2013
WILLIAM POWERS is the president of the University of Texas at Austin (UT-
Austin). Lino Graglia holds an endowed chair at its law school. Both have
kindly demeanours, impressive records and that crucial perk of academic
success, offices with great views: Mr Powers looks out over the heart of the
university’s campus, Mr Graglia at its football stadium.
They also hold strong and opposing opinions on whether admissions to their
... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 Merkel Seeks to "Europeanise" Border Controls; Emergency EU Meeting Called
Emergency EU Meeting Called
Animosity over millions of migrants entering the EU has finally reached the
crisis stage. In an emergency meeting this weekend, called by German
chancellor Angela Merkel, EU Leaders to Hammer Out Continental Response to
Migrant Crisis.
European leaders will hold an emergency summit this weekend in an
attempt to bring order to the tide of migrants crossing the western Balkans.
The hastil... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9493 | 21 看到美新版有朋友讨论印度后裔美国人的政治倾向，我很好奇印度裔美国人究竟是支持
哪个党的。简单Google一下，查到了下面这组统计数字：
From the Guardian:
An impressive 84% of the 2.85 million-strong Indian-American community voted
for Mr Obama in 2008, second perhaps only to African-Americans as a
minority group.
Has he still got their love? It appears so.
According to a Pew Research Center survey released in June, 65% of Indian-
Americans approve of the way Mr Obama is handling the presidency.
Of all the Asian American groups surveyed, Indian-Americans were th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 23 他年轻时对这种高大blonde超模身材非常来电。
Donald Trump Reckoned He Could Have Had Sex With Princess Diana
“She had the height, she had the beauty, she had the skin – the whole
thing,” the Republican presidential candidate once said.
Donald Trump claimed he could have slept with Princess Diana if he had
wanted to, according to a radio interview recorded months after her death on
the The Howard Stern Show.
“Why do people think it’s egotistical of you to say you could’ve gotten
with Lady Di?” Stern asked the Republ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 丹麦这种傻逼国家还能住吗?
Denmark May Impose Tax on Meat to Improve the Weather for Ethical Reasons
Dave Blount
28 Apr, 2016 by Dave Blount
People who think of themselves as decent and nice justify their rejection of
morality in favor of progressivism by piously proclaiming allegiance to
what they portray as a higher morality. Their alternate ethnics are not only
degenerate but literally insane:
Denmark is considering proposals to introduce a tax on red meat, after a
government think tank came to the co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11319 | 25 Another forecast just in from the experts at the University of East Anglia -
things are definitely shifting in favour of Leave:
Predicted probability of Britain Remaining: 0.03
(33 of 382 areas reporting.)
Predicted vote share for Remain: 47.5 percent.
(90% prediction interval: 45.5 to 49.6 percent) |
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发帖数: 10729 | 26 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/22/shots-fired-at-munich-shopping-centre/
Reuters) - Supporters of the Islamic State jihadi group celebrated on social
media a shooting rampage in a shopping mall in the southern German city of
Munich on Friday that killed and wounded many people.
"Thank Allah, may Allah bring prosperity to our Islamic State men," read one
tweet in Arabic on an account that regularly favours the radical Islamist
movement.
"The Islamic State is expanding in Europe," read an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3798 | 28 民主党的基本盘大，再加媒体一边倒的洗脑。另外，turn out是按照上次大选估计的。
这个热情程度绝对会影响turn out。床铺比Romney多10％ turnout, 希拉里那边比奥黑
少10%。这里5%以下的希拉里优势就都是浮云。 |
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发帖数: 2511 | 29 看看网上的白人，一边倒的支持希婆。我觉得这个比问题答案是什么 本身更有意思 |
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发帖数: 12756 | 30 呵呵，他们一个都没有提到现在的poll 是 weighted
一些政论爱好者而已，你问问他们CNN的poll的sample方法是什么，他们100% 干瞪眼 |
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发帖数: 5600 | 31 只看Rally是不够的，Rally人多说明铁盘的热情大，但还有沉默的大多数，这点我同意
Rally在关键州关键时间还是非常重要的。战场州最后可能就是几千票甚至几百票决定
。一边天天Rally, 一边一个月都没几次出现在公共场合，不知道这边想靠什么赢。 |
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发帖数: 12463 | 32 也就是这个贴的几个回复
别处都是一边倒支持trump的
我也觉得很有意思
随便看了几个trend讨论
发现这是作弊集中地
比如这个帖子有700+ vote
Why did Hillary Clinton call half of Trump’s supporters “a basket of
deplorables”?
Andrew Weill
Andrew Weill, Student of politics and occasional activist
Written Sep 10
I suspect it’s a very calculated trap, into which Trump has fallen.
The election battle for Clinton is about swing voters and getting out the
base.
An excellent tool for both is to put attention on the ugliest side of the
Trump support. And there's plen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2511 | 33 我同意。但奇怪为啥就没有Trump粉上去回答呢 |
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发帖数: 12463 | 34 quora上回答的总体水平比stack exchange系列的差太多了 |
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V**3
发帖数: 12756 | 35 跟支持者人群有关
在网上活跃的主要是两种人， 小年轻甚至学生（这里白左居多），还有职业媒体人，
职业“文化人”（白左黑左天下）
正经工薪阶层（恰恰是Trump的铁盘），顶多关注下知名网站，老婆孩子房子车子狗，
谁有功夫去满internet闲逛啊 |
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发帖数: 2239 | 36 一个很类似的比喻：
你去民主党大本营，左右看看：很奇怪，怎么没有Trump supporter?
你去任何下列网站，看看谁的支持者多：
www.foxnews.com
breitbart.com
www.drudge.com
www.yahoo.com: look at comments section. |
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发帖数: 1068 | 38 今早新闻论坛铺天盖地说Trump撒谎，还没时间研究到底什么地方说错了，看看这8条，
我的心放下了，得多蠢的人才注意一些小差别，反而忽视了Trump提出来的这些问题。
1. Falsely said, "You look at African-American youth with unemployment rates
in the 50s." (The unemployment rate for African-American youth is 26 per
cent.)
首先，就算是26%的失业率，也是个很可怕的社会问题，参看比利时布鲁塞尔穆斯林聚
居区，初始问题就是好多年轻人早早辍学或者高中毕业就失业在家。二十岁左右的年轻
人无所事事，精力旺盛就容易干坏事。
第二，Trump和作者的失业率如何考量女性年轻人的？如果前者包括，后者不包括，甚
至连数字也合得上了。
2. Falsely said, "I was against going into Iraq. And it's so well-documented
." (Trump supported the invasion. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4002 | 39 大部分赌客是通过民调来押注的。今年大选，由于美国媒体的偏向性，媒体民调水分很
大，媒体民调主要用于影响选民投票意向。另外，希拉里花了数百万美元用于民调，许
多民调公司被收买。根据民调下注，风险很大。
在华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校举行了美国大选第二场电视辩论。川普与希拉里在辩论场上
展开了激烈的“唇枪舌战”。而当美国人民为选谁当总统纠结不清时，在遥远的英国，
一名女子押注50万欧元赌希拉里在大选中获胜。
一名女子押注50万欧元赌希拉里在大选中获胜，这可能是有史以来最大的政治赌注。
The gamble, which is the equivalent to ￡450,000, was with British
bookies William Hill who placed the Democratic party nominee at 4-11 to win
the race to the White House.
这名女子在英国博彩公司下注，赌注相当于45万英镑，她以4比11的赔率押这位民主党
提名人赢得美国总统大选。
Should Cli... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4479 | 40 家有孩子的都要存一份，铁定用得上。[Grin]
Interesting[Chuckle]
FATHER-DAUGHTER TALK --a must read
A young woman was about to finish her first year of University. Like so
many others her age, she considered herself to be very liberal, and among
other liberal ideals, was very much in favour of higher taxes to support
more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch conservative, a
feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5443 | 41 作者：zj wolf
维基解密网站主页新刊登了如下声明（2016年11月8日）
https://wikileaks.org/Assange-Statement-on-the-US-Election.html
Assange Statement on the US Election
阿桑奇对美国大选的声明
8 November 2016
By Julian Assange
In recent months, WikiLeaks and I personally have come under enormous
pressure to stop publishing what the Clinton campaign says about itself to
itself. That pressure has come from the campaign’s allies, including the
Obama administration, and from liberals who are anxious about who will be
elected US President.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 334 | 42 找茬: "1959年，罗素怀着差不多的心态窜访了新中国，向伟大的毛主席献上他的著作
《西方的智慧》"
罗素是在1920年访问中国.
1920年罗素访问俄国和中国，并在北京讲学一年，与美国人文哲学家杜威同时间在中国
讲学。罗素在长沙时期，青年毛泽东曾担任他的记录员。回到欧洲后著有《中国问题》
一书，孙中山因此书而称其为“唯一真正理解中国的西方人”。
http://www.sacu.org/russell.html
In this issue we reprint in full Russell’s farewell address as it sums up
his experiences in China and Russia in 1920-21. These were controversial
topics. Amongst many people who heard Russell speak during his time in China
was Mao Tse-tung who, like others hungry for change, could also read... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2406 | 43 Marketing a drug is very costly.
In th recurrent system, FDA approval is a vote of confidence and make it
easy to market, but it favours large pharm because the risk of not getting
approval after spending phase3 money.
In a new simplified approval process, ineffective drug will not be marketed
aggressively because large pharm would not want to loose money. But small
pharmaceutical cab roll out on small scale without large upfront cost.
There will be many small scale roll out.
In the new sys... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 445 | 44 引用philosophybasics上的话：
What is a conservative in politics?
Conservatism (or conservativism) is any political philosophy that favours
tradition (in the sense of various religious, cultural, or nationally-
defined beliefs and customs) in the face of external forces for change, and
is critical of proposals for radical social change.
What is a liberal in politics?
Liberalism, political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the
freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics. L... 阅读全帖 |
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H*****l
发帖数: 445 | 45 没有说保守派不变啊，我的原文是他们不喜欢改变。Not favours in change.
举个例子，进步派的人可能会认为宪法中某些语句已经过时，希望在现在的环境下进行
新的诠释。但保守派大法官，比如Scalia，就喜欢忠实于宪法原本的含义。 |
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发帖数: 1 | 46 丘吉尔语录：向希特勒和墨索里尼致敬
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_61c5371b0100krqg.html
“（希特勒）所做出的成就出乎人们的预料，可以说，这对于人类历史是一大贡献。”
（1935年）
“如果我的国家吃了败仗，我希望我们也能找到（希特勒）这样出色的领袖。”（1937
年）（摘自特鲁汉诺夫斯基：《丘吉尔的一生》，北京出版社，1982年版，第267页）
1927年对墨索里尼赞扬道：“我们会在你们的反对列宁主义的胜利斗争中，始终诚心实
意地和你们在一起……在国际方面，你们的活动支援了整个世界……意大利向我们表明
应当如何同破坏势力斗争，……意大利为俄国毒药制出了必要的解毒剂，从此以后，任
何一个大国不会再对危害性疾病束手无策了”。《丘吉尔的一生》，第224页。
“（墨索里尼）把在1919年可能陷入布尔什维主义的意大利人民拯救出来，……如果不
是他的统治，而是另一个人的统治，那就很可能出现一个共产党的意大利，……即使在
战争的结局已经明确无疑的时候，墨索里尼他仍然会受到盟国的欢迎。……他的伟大的
历程仍不失为他个人-权力和长期统治的一个纪念碑。... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 47 绿党反对设定每年难民数目上限，要全面禁止汽油发动机，还要全欧财政一体分配，简
直是国家自杀。现在FDP退出执政谈判，默克尔的CDU拒绝AfD参与执政，只剩下组成少
数政府或者重新选举的选择了。
The three top hurdles in German coalition talks
Here are the three main stumbling blocks on which they will have to reach
common positions to avoid snap elections.
Immigration
Migrants and refugees has been Germany's toughest political issue since a
mass influx from 2015 brought some 1.2 million asylum seekers, sparking a
backlash that has seen the far-right AfD party enter parliament.
Merkel's CDU a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4911 | 48 第一，主流媒体那么假新闻，英文凭啥比中文更好？第二，你所看到的中文假东西，是
基于中文媒体对英文的翻译，这样当然是英文更好，因为英文原版嘛。可是古兰经都是
由阿拉伯语翻译的，英文和中文位置一样．
第三，英文原文如下：And let those who cannot find someone to marry maintain
chastity until Allah (SwT) makes them rich through His favours ...--Surah 24
, Verse 33 也就是说，只要保障了经济条件，就可以包办婚姻了。
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发帖数: 1 | 49 因为网上中文的东西太多造假的了。
And let those who cannot find someone to marry maintain chastity until Allah
(SwT) makes them rich through His favours
请问这段话与父母强迫逼婚有什么关系？你从哪里看出来说有了钱后，父母就可以逼女
儿嫁给父母决定的人？
BTW, 你这翻译只是众多翻译中的一种，给你看看下面另外一种翻译。注意其中差别：
“who cannot find someone" 与 “who do not find the means"。不管如何，我是看
不出来有父母可以逼婚的说过。
Shakir: And let those who do not find the means to marry keep chaste until
Allah makes them free from want out of His grac
maintain
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发帖数: 106 | 50 Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has said gay Americans should have the
right to get married.
Dick Cheney speaks out in favour of gay marriage
Addressing the National Press Club Mr Cheney, whose daughter Mary is a
lesbian, said that freedom "means freedom for everyone".
"People ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind
of arrangement they wish," he added.
"I do believe, historically, the way marriage has been regulated is at a
state level. It's always been a state |
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