Its past hardline secularist polices were popular among many voters in the city.

而且该党硬派的世俗主义政策颇受这座城市选民的欢迎。

Would his government initiate an economic lift-off, as businessfolk hoped, or spark a sectarian conflagration, as secularists feared?

他的政府会像商人们所希望的那样开启经济腾飞，还是像世俗主义者所担心的那样引发宗派冲突?

These words, plus a short Easter broadcast noting how incredibly special the feast was for many people, have drawn loud complaints from secularists.

然而对于大多数人，这些话加上复活节广播中传递出的令人难以置信的特殊存在，已然在世俗论者中引得嘘声一片。

That implies a large constituency of cultural Christians who are not militant secularists but have no more appetite for difficult parts of the faith than Mr Cameron does.

这意味着大多数选区的基督徒并非激进的世俗论者，而是比卡梅伦对那些较难认同的宗教信仰 更难接受的人。

The rebuilding of Notre Dame is both a test and a showcase for France: of its ability to meet an ambitious deadline, to satisfy the demanding global gaze of both secularists and spiritualists and to flaunt French craftsmanship.

巴黎圣母院的重建既是对法国的考验，也是对法国能力的展示：法国有能力如期完成一个高要求的项目，能满足全世界教徒和非教徒的苛刻审视，并炫耀法国的精湛工艺。