They gavelipserviceto their trust in God, but their actions showed where their faith really was: in their military and financial might.
他们以嘴唇的事奉,来表达自己对神的信任,但是他们的行动透露出他们真正的信心:靠军事武力和经济势力。
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America may have fondly imagined that its 1899 Open Door policy toward China, to which the other powers gavelipservice, had stayed the process of division.