But very quickly I understood it: in this old-fashioned world of individual stories a thing as old-fashioned as a city quarter still plays a role.

但很快我就理解了：在这个老式的个人故事的世界里，类似一个城市角落这样的老式概念仍然还有意义。

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But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.

他们还没有躺下，所多玛城里各处的人，连老带少，都来围住那房子。

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The reopening of the twice-destroyed Hurva synagogue, in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, which Palestinians seek as part of a future capital, triggered a backlash.

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And they point to the buying by militant Jewish groups, encouraged by the government, of houses in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, as well as in other Palestinian areas.

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He refuses to make do with Palestinian sovereignty over the Muslim holy sites and the adjacent Muslim Quarter of the walled Old City, and demands that the 200, 000-odd Palestinian citizens beyond the walls live on their own sovereign soil.

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