Mr Healey's is avowedly a narrative history.
希利这部著作无疑是一部叙述史。
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运动来说,这是一个不太可能宪章,在过去半个世纪里,巴勒斯坦事业大部分时间都是由公开非宗教团体领导。