In the vote Tuesday, New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission denied landmark status to the 19th century building that now occupies the site of the proposed 13-story, Commissioners ruled that the building, which is not within view of ground zero, lacks distinctive architectural or historic value.

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So the study of regime politics is in part a study of the distinctive national character types that constitutes a citizen body.

所以政体政治研究就如同,独特的民族性格类型研究,那组成了一个公民主体。

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In some ways the most distinctive literature America has is a kind of Southern literature, white and black.

在某种程度上,美国最有特点的文学,就是一种南方文学,关于白人和黑人

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That people would disappear as a distinctive entity, and in effect, that is what happened to the ten tribes of the northern kingdom to a large degree.

原本独特的性质逐渐消失，实际上，从很大程度上看,这就是北边十部落消失的原因。

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The South is distinctive because of its climate, hot weather, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

南方之所以与众不同是因为,他们只承认气候的原因,天气炎热,诸如此类

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What is the goal or purpose ? of the study of politics and what is distinctive about Aristotle's approach ? to the study of political things?

研究政治的,目标与目的为何,亚里士多德学习,政治事务方法的,最大不同点为何？

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The remainder of the Republic is, again, devoted to crafting the regime that will produce a distinctive kind of human character, and that of course is why the book is a utopia.

理想国》的往后章节，是全面致力于刻划能催化,独特人类性格的政体，那也当然就是为何此书是本乌托邦。

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It's regarded perhaps by today's political science as too value laden too subjective to speak of statesmanship or statecraft. This too again is a word that carries distinctive and strong ? connotations. Who is a statesman?

因那在今日的政治科学可能包含,太多的价值观,讲领袖风范太过主观或说权术,而也是这个字,它含带了特殊与强烈的内涵，谁是政治家？

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