He had a pleasant, lilting northern accent.

他带着悦耳的，抑扬顿挫的北方口音.

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A prisoner has escaped from a jail in northern Texas.

一名囚犯已经从北德克萨斯州的一个监狱逃走。

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A group of rebels overran the port area and most of the northern suburbs.

一群叛乱分子迅速占领了港口地区及绝大部分北部郊区。

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In eighteen fifty, the United States faced the threat of a split between northern and southern states.

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People who speak the same language could understand the people of northern Afghnastan who don't require 200,000 dollars a year as the sallary.

说同一种语言的人们可以理解阿富汗北部人们,这些人也不会要求年薪200，000，美元。

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But,basically,the news was always given by people with a northern accent, either a Loire Valley accent, and they're very proud, they think they speak the best French, but a Parisian accent.

但基本上,新闻往往是由,有着北方口音的人播报的,这些人要么来自卢瓦尔河谷,他们对自己的出身引以为荣,认为自己法语说的最棒,而不是巴黎人

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Now, because of that local decision to work out this temporary arrangement, there were some people who believed that we were giving the MEK special treatment, and there were even news stories that said that the Defense Department planned to use the MEK as a Northern Alliance-type organization making the analogy to Afghanistan as a Northern Alliance-type organization against the government of Iran.

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Now, because of that local decision to work out this temporary arrangement, there were some people who believed that we were giving the MEK special treatment, and there were even news stories that said that the Defense Department planned to use the MEK as a Northern Alliance-type organization -- making the analogy to Afghanistan -- as a Northern Alliance-type organization against the government of Iran.

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"This is a chance to move Northern Ireland a whole step forward, " he said.

BBC: Queen to begin two-day Northern Ireland visit