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He is playing his cards close to his chest.

他正在他的胸前玩牌。

Was he a man who vacillated from crisis to crisis, buffeted by the ever-changing winds of global and regional politics but surviving against the odds by duplicitously playing off all sides against each other and taking bids from whoever seemed to have the highest cards at the time—Russians and Americans, Arabs and Jews, Baathists and monarchists—while seeking merely to stay on his rickety and often irrelevant throne?

他在各种紧要关头左右徘徊，遭受着全球政治与地区政治不断变化的趋势所带来的种种打击，但却不可思议地挺了过来。究其原因，人们可以发现他采取了挑拨离间的手腕，使得各方政权相互厮杀，自己坐得渔翁之利。并且，他巴结与臣服于那时任何看来最有势力的政权——俄国人与美国人、阿拉伯人与犹太人，以及叙利亚社会党人与君主制主义者——与此同时还不为人注意地寻求着继续呆在其动荡不安以及微不足道的王位上。他又是这样的一个人吗？

What are your goals and strategies for growth?

你的成长目标和策略是什么？

And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven irits of God, and the seven star I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

3：1 你要写信给撒狄教会的使者，说，那有神的七灵和七星的，说，我知道你的行为，按名你是活的，其实是死的。