With a deeper understanding of our adopted home comes a deeper appreciation of this "Shining City on the Hill".

对美国新家园有著更深入的理解，便能加深我们对此“山上明城”的欣赏。

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Now, with mounting graduate unemployment, schools will struggle to convince children that a Good University, that shining city on the hill, is everything it is cracked up to be.

如今，随着毕业生失业人数逐渐增加，学校得努力说服孩子们，一所好大学——在山头大放光芒的城市，并不像它说的那么好。

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At the very center was a hill and on top of the hill the majestic and stunning Temple of Poseidon, which was visible from everywhere in the holy emerald city.

其最中心点是座小山丘，在山顶上是雄伟壮观的波塞冬神庙，在神圣的翡翠城的任何地方都能看到它。

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We still sometimes want to be Winthrop's City on the Hill, beacon of something for everybody.

有时我们仍然希望成为山上的温思罗普城,成为每个人心中的灯塔

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Governor Winthrop when he gave his speech to the puritans on the ship, on the Mayflower, he said : "We shall be a city upon a hill."

温斯洛普总督,当他站在船上，面对着清教徒发表演讲时，在五月花上，他说,我们应该建造山上的城“

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"We are the shining city on the hill, " Williams told the crowd.

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When Rosen looks further out, he sees a city on the hill.

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"America is still the land of opportunity, and it is a beacon of hope and liberty and, as Ronald Reagan said, a shining city on the hill, " McCain said.

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