That Joseph, a Semitic foreigner, could be elevated to an important post, the post of governor, is a little less surprising, if we suppose there was a Semitic regime.

约瑟夫，外来闪族，可能被提拨到高位，统治者的位置，这也就不那么令人惊奇了，如果我们假设当时有一个闪族王国。

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The point is that this cliched suburban life of mowing the lawn, Humbert is a foreigner--into something you can laugh at, something you can enjoy, something that you can apply the knight's move to.

这段话的意思是乡下人民这种修剪草坪，亨伯特是个外国人），变成了一种你感到开心,你很享受，你可以用迂回前进理论理解的事情。

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In Alexis de Tocqueville's great Democracy in America, which he published in 1831,or published in 1837, after his famous nine-month tour of the United States the most famous book, travel book, ever written about America, by a foreigner.

亚利西斯·德·托克维尔的著作《美国民主》,在1831年,或者1837年出版,这是本他在美国周游了九个月之后,写成的游记,在所有由外国作家执笔,所著的关于美国的书中享有盛誉

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