Inside the suitcase is a plain piece of white paper and the children were asked to draw the things they think they would need on the trip. Sometimes they get they wouldn't need.

行李箱里面是一张普通的白纸,我要求孩子们,在纸上画出他们认为必要的,旅行用品，有时候他们画出来的并不需要。

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Now, you may not think that implied consent is as good as the real thing.

不过你可能认为默认的同意不如白纸黑字的协议。

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The creation almost of a clean slate, even more so I would argue than the disruption that it came after the fall of Rome, because there's one big difference.

这几乎就是从一张白纸重新创作,甚至比起,我认为,比起紧随罗马陷落而出现的分裂更有价值,因为这两者有一个巨大的差别

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And by the way, we, the people of progress, are rooted in those principles of the Declaration of Independence" which are written down essentially as creeds "And, oh and by the way, we have a written Constitution we actually wrote it down, we have a Bill of Rights where we declare these things on paper, unlike the Brits."

顺便说一下,我们,作为进步的人类,是独立宣言的主旨",它被写成文字,作为信条,"顺便再说一下,我们还有一部成文大宪章,我们把它写下来,我们有《人权法案》,一切白纸黑字申明清楚,不像那些英国佬"

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