If the Israelites were, in fact, basically Canaanites, who had withdrawn from the larger collective, who insisted on the overlordship of Yahweh, then Canaanites who did not join them in this were a special threat to the new Yahwism.

如果以色列人实际上是迦南人，他们从大团体中撤离，他们坚持耶和华的霸主般的唯一地位，那么没有加入他们的迦南人,对于新的耶和华崇拜便是一种威胁。

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The pressure points come when the issues are so close to the bone that a variety of people don't feel that they had the luxury to do that, that their interests, their commitments are threatened.

有时也有一些压力,这时话题通常比较敏感，许多人,觉得言论自由成为了一种奢侈品，他们的兴趣和信仰都受到了威胁。

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Then they may feel threatened.

那么他们可能会有一种威胁感。

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