The intelligence community needs a long-term bill to fix gaps in our intelligence law, not a 21 day extension.

情报机构需要一个长期法案以弥补我们在情报发上的缺陷，而不仅是21天的延期。

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Yestoday is an invalid cheque tomorrow is a term bill but today is the only cash you own so you should seize it intelligently.

昨天是一张过期支票，明天是一张期票，而今天则是你唯一拥有的现金，所以应当巧妙把握。

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In the bank, and elsewhere, you may hear the term 'utility bill'—this simply refers to bills relating to the provision of services to your home, such as electricity, gas, water and telephone.

在银行或其他地方，你可能会听到“公用事业帐单”这个词——它就是指与家庭服务有关的账单，如电费、煤气费、水费和电话费。

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In the south central state of Arkansas,two-term U.S.senator Blanche Lincoln faces a tough runoff against Bill Halter, the state's lieutenant governor.

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The term means it was a sixty-day Treasury bill; that means it pays not $100, it would start at $10,000.

期限表示这是六十天期国库券,票面不是100美元,而至少一万美元

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His popularity at the end of his term, despite what everyone would agree, whether you like Bill Clinton or not, was a big mistake with Monica Lewinsky his popularity didn't suffer very much.

任期结束时，人气很高，尽管大家都心知肚明，不管你喜不喜欢比尔·克林顿，和莱温斯基乱搞男女关系就是一个错误,但是他的人气并未因此受到很大影响。

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The certainty offered by a long-term bill is precisely what America's transportation leaders--like the Champions of Change I met yesterday--need to plan confidently for tomorrow's infrastructure and begin putting our friends and neighbors back to work today.

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According to a senior administration official, the president is still holding to his promise not to sign a short-term bill that extends Bush-era tax cuts across the board to buy time for a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.

CNN: Down to the fiscal cliff wire, with no solution in sight

Given the urgency, the emergency bill will doubtless have to be rammed through before Parliament rises for the Summer, on July 19, so something in the current programme, which includes the Finance Bill, which enacts the Budget, an Opposition Day and the polishing off of the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill, will have to be ditched.

BBC: Police minister Nick Herbert under pressure over bail