Maybe, as so many Americans seem to believe today, we can't afford the kinds of public programs that would genuinely alleviate poverty — though I would argue otherwise.

或许，正如当下许多美国人所相信的那样，我们已无力负担那些可以真正缓解贫穷的项目——虽然我并不认同这一观点。

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Greeks - and Greece - may have lived beyond their means for decades, but as they point out, so did many others, including Americans.

希腊人民-和希腊-入不敷出的生活可能已经持续了几十年，但正如他们指出的，很多人也都这样，包括美国人。

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But in many cases white Americans are not so much racist as selfish or indifferent or trapped in circumstance and history as much as the blacks themselves.

但很多情况下，与其说美国白人是种族主义者不如说他们自私、冷漠或者像黑人自己一样为现实状况和历史所左右。

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"I think that the Americans want to improve their relations with Syria to weaken Iran and to further isolate it in the region, so I don't think the Americans need Syria as a mediator with Iran, because that would improve relations between Tehran and Damascus,"

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we've actually looked just expectancy in the brain of schizophrenics unhealthy controls So what we see is with Germans as the same thing that we saw with Americans.

我们对精神分裂症患者的大脑,进行了观察,我们在正常德国人身上观察到的结果,和我们在美国观察到的相同。

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So long as the Americans are prepared to share their discoveries, and so long as the Europeans do not expect just to bask in the Americans' protection come what may, this military revolution could in the end help to tighten transatlantic ties.

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This strategy was great, so long as the Americans and Europeans were buying.

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