The groups that are the largest and most socially and politically complex, we call states.

那些规模最大、在社会和政治上最复杂的群体，我们称之为国家。

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I made a phone call to the United States to talk to a friend.

我打电话到美国同一个朋友交谈。

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I am planning a trip to the United States and I'll call on you at your office to discuss the price of the plush toy at 10:00 am, TUE, SEP 18, 2005.

我计划到美国一趟，并将于2005年9月18日星期二上午10点到您的办公室楼拜访您，讨论毛绒玩具的价钱。

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In the United States,for example, more than twenty thousand teams are preparing for what organizers call memory walks.

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It wasn't immediately renewed -- because the United States got into a war that we call The War of 1812.

许可证并没有立即被更新,因为当时美国卷入了一场战争,被我们叫做1812年战争。

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So, you assign values to very specific states of matter and call those the reference points for your temperature. For instance, freezing of water or boiling of water, the standard ones.

那么你对物质的,某些特殊状态指定数值,把它们叫做你的温度的参考点,比如水的冰点或沸点,它们都是标准。

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The nuclear weapons programs, depots, and infrastructure of what Madeleine Albright so delicately used to call "states of concern" must, in a most un-Albrightian phrase, be destroyed.

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During a recent call between states officials and the banks, some lenders said they opposed any settlement term that would reduce loan balances, according to one of the people familiar with the talks.

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