Mr Healey's is avowedly a narrative history.
希利的这部著作无疑是一部叙述。
It was, in other words, an unlikely charter for a movement that, within a decade, would bid to represent the Palestinian cause, which had for the better part of the previous half-century been led by avowedly secular groups.
换句话说,对于一个在十年内试图代表巴勒斯坦事业的运动来说,这是一个不太可能的宪章,在过去的半个世纪里,巴勒斯坦事业的大部分时间都是由公开的非宗团体领导的。