As the president continued his cross-country appeals on health care reform, partisan disagreements continued to echo on Capitol Hill.

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Then next to that north-south central hill country, you've got also running north to south, what we call the Great Jordan Rift Valley It goes the entire length of the country And the Jordan River runs through this valley.

靠近这个中心分布着南北走向山丘的国家，你看到,南北走向山谷，被称作约旦大裂谷,它贯穿整个国家的南北,约旦河流过这条裂谷。

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So the first half of the book of Joshua contains a streamlined, idealized account according to which the Israelites managed in a relatively short period to take the central hill country, confining the Philistines to a little strip here on the coastal plain. We will come to the Philistines in a minute.

因此《约书亚书》第一部分包含了,一种流线行，理想化的叙述，据此,以色列人在相对较短的时期内设法,攫取中央山地，将腓利士人，逼至狭窄条形地带,逼至海岸平原，我们待会儿将要说到腓利士人。

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