The whole town turned out to see the circus.

倾城而出看马戏表演。

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OK, let's all go see the circus.

好，我们都去看马戏团吧。

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Ellen: Let's see the circus, then.

艾伦：那么我们就去看马戏吧！

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While these stories are in fact anecdotal, the average viewer of the news might see the circus and believe that retail sales must be robust.

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See, the circus train is about a mile long and they can't really bring it into the city and walk the elephants up the escalators from Penn Station.

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And when these Americans come home at night, bone-tired, and turn on the news, all they see is the same partisan three-ring circus here in Washington.

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