What FASB does for the United States is it creates what are called Generally Accepted Accounting Practices.

财务会计准则委员会为美国所做的贡献,就是制定了国际公认会计准则

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For reason, he writes in a famous passage, "for reason is nothing but reckoning, that is adding and subtracting the consequences of general names agreed upon."

对理性而言，他在一个著名的段落中写到，“推理就是一种计算，也就是将公认为标示或表明思想的,普通名词所构成的序列相加减“

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It is the skill possessed by the greatest statesmen you might say the fathers of the constitutions as it were who create the permanent framework in which allows later and lesser figures to handle change.

这是最优政治家所应具备的技能,你也可以说,即是宪法之父,如同前人所公认，他创建永恒的架构,让后代及门徒们,能用以应付变革。

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