It is common for supporters of road networks to reject the models of cities with good public transport by arguing that such systems would not work in their particular city.

公路网的支持者通常会反对拥有良好公共交通的城市模式，他们认为这样的系统在他们所在的城市行不通。

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Happy people have this in common: They are grateful for all the good things in their lives.

快乐的人有一个共同点：他们对生活中所有美好的事物都心存感激。

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It is a necessary organizing principle that allows people to pool their resources for the common good and mobilize against common threats, whether they are floods or invading armies.

作为一个必要的组织原则，国家使人们可以为了共同利益而集合资源，可以动员起来对付共同威胁—不管是洪水还是侵略者。

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Germany has long called for a single foreign policy among European countries, for their common good.

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Even Syria, which Manuchehr Mottaki, the Iranian foreign minister, visited this week, differs sharply with Iran on what is good for their common neighbour, Iraq: Iran is far more sympathetic to the new Shia-dominated government, while Syria hankers after the old domination by its sister Baath party, once run by Saddam Hussein.

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Perhaps most important, calibrated boldness implies not that one solution fits all, but that different countries should do different things, for the common good as well as their own.

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