It's not a daunting book. It's meant for laypeople.

不是一本让人生畏的书，是专门为普通人写的。

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But,there was a big problem, that for all of his failings,human failings, and there were indeed many, and his intellectual limitations which were daunting, he was a man of faith and loyalty to his principles, for better or for worse,in this context.

但是他的弱点,人性的弱点,是个大问题,而且他的弱点确实很多,还有他的智力界限也令人沮丧,他是个固执于自己原则的人,不管原则是好是坏

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