Addressing a conference of prospective donor countries organized by the Haitian government and the Inter-American Development Bank, the secretary said Haiti may be at a historic turning point and that countries around the world have a stake in whether the government of President Rene Preval succeeds.

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What's at stake, or what might be at stake in this connection between Milton's own postprandial groaning and moaning and the even more poignant post-lapsarian groaning of Adam and Eve and the entire earth?

这里为什么要把,弥尔顿餐后的这种呻吟,与甚至更悲伤的亚当和夏娃的餐后呻吟,还有整个大地的呻吟联系起来呢？

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And in such situations where the very survival of the community may be at stake we might call these emergency situations the conscientious statesmen must be able to respond appropriately.

而在这种情势下,社群的存活可能面临考验,我们可以称这些为紧急情势,谨慎的，政治家,必需能适时地回应。

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