"Well,what we found is a lot of ambivalence. A bare majority of Americans, about 52 percent, think that the U.S.military effort there is a good idea and should be there.

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Again, this is his personal ambivalence about his own role, hanging around with ordinary people, sleeping in peasant lodgings and that sort of thing.

这也是他形象的两面性的证明,他喜欢在普通人身边游荡,或者住在农家小屋之类的

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Peter the Great had an enormous ambivalence about his role and his image as a czar.

即彼得大帝的一言一行,很不符合沙皇的身份

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Again, this is just his personal ambivalence about who he was, and his uncertainty about the role that he had in his own family So, this was a play-acting that was part of his life.

这也表明他对自己的身份的矛盾,以及自己在家庭中的角色的不确定,所以,这种角色扮演成为他生活的一部分

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Another point about this sort of ambivalence about being czar is that he often made a point of choosing his most trusted advisors from the ranks of commoners and gave them the right to become titled after a certain amount of time after a certain amount of time in the royal bureaucracy.

他作为沙皇矛盾的另一点是,他最信任的顾问,常常是从普通民众中选出来的,而且经过一段时间后,他会在皇家官僚机构中给他们一个头衔

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