R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry.

成立于1980年，是美国的另类摇滚乐团。 乐团最初的成员有迈可尔·斯蒂佩(主唱)、彼得·巴克(吉他手)、迈可·米尔斯(贝司手)和比尔·贝里(鼓手)。

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Sure, every now and again there’s a fluke like R.E.M. or the Flaming Lips, a band that continues to produce good music two or three decades after their initial success.

这些乐队在完成漂亮的登场之后会在接下来了二、三十年里不断的创作出好的音乐。

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That was the song "Discoverer." Like many R.E.M.songs, this one is poetic with a meaning that is not always clear.

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He urged revival of the slave-trade in the late 1850s, and he developed a theory of what he called warranteeism--w-a-r-r-a-n-t-e-e-I-s-m.

他促成了十八世纪五十年代后期,奴隶交易的复苏,还自己发明了一套理论,名为抵押品主义

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Many people hear it and think it is Mary,M-A-R-Y, instead of M-E-R-R-Y.

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The costs are E N O R M O U S for the drugs.

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