And now you are on a council advising the president on how to move forward obviously in a pluralistic nation.
现在,您在一个委员供职,为总统,就如何明显推动美国成为多元化国家提出建议。
I think that, you know, the country at the moment needs a strong leadership
我认为,这个国家现在需要一个强大的领导者。
It turns out the U.S. and Jamaica are the only two places on Earth now that use the Fahrenheit scale.
事实上现在地球上,只有美国和牙买加这两个国家,还在使用华氏温标。
Most advanced countries of the world today have a corporate profits tax rate for large corporations of about a third.
现在世界上大多数的发达国家,都征收企业所得税,对大企业来说税率大概是三分之一
But this is a state, he believes, that has now been liberated or emancipated from Christian and classical conceptions of virtue.
但他相信,这个国家现在,已从基督与古代美德概念中,解放出来。
And also in terms of people saying, Well, you know what, that's all well and good because this is really fundamentally a Christian nation.
另外一些人说,现在这样很好,因为美国从根本讲,是一个信仰基督教的国家。
So, today, what do you think are the greatest national security threats or threats to America's interests.
现在,您认为,什么会严重威胁美国国家安全,威胁美国国家利益。
What the Dutch did--the Netherlands is an extraordinarily small country, and it's the most populated country in Europe, then, per square kilometre, and is now--once.
那些荷兰人...荷兰是一个,非常非常小的国家,也是当时欧洲人口密度最高的国家,如果以每平方公里人口计算,现在也是
Now, let me think about that; let's think out loud about that other statement.
现在,让我们想想,让我们仔细思考一下其他国家的情况
And if the other countries aren't going to cut down on their fishing, then you want to catch the fish now, because there aren't going to be any there tomorrow.
如果其他国家不打算减少捕捞量,那么你现在就想先把鱼都捞起来,因为没准明天就会无鱼可捞了
Every major African-American writer of the twentieth century, at least until your lifetime, when black writers in this country are now born and raised in cities, in California or Minneapolis or New York or and in modern Atlanta and they come from all the same places other Americas do.
二十世纪的每一个主流的非裔美籍作家,至少到你们这一辈子所能接触到的,这个国家的黑人作家,现在,都生于城市长于城市,在加州,明尼阿波利斯市或者纽约市,或者现代亚特兰大,他们从和其他美国人来自同一个地方
I have a chart here, which I'll make available to, with a listing of nations with worse literacy record in the world.
现在我手中有一张表格,这个我会公开给大家,这里列出了世界上,具有较差文化素养的一些国家。
They're associated now with events in the life of the new nation rather than being grounded in the cycles of nature.
他们现在同一个国家的新生联系起来,而不再是简单的自然循环。
Now you can actually go, now that I realize that Libya is now open; it's no longer a closed territory.
现在你确实可以去那个地方,据我所知,现在利比亚已经对外开放,不再是一个封闭国家
Now, of course, there are denominator issues here because we started with a much higher base rate than these other countries, but if you think about the size of the populations there, the number of people who are going to become diabetic in the next twenty-five years is really very frightening.
现在,当然这里存在着分母的问题,我国的增长基数比其他国家要大得多,因为一旦考虑到人口总量,在未来25年成为糖尿病人的人数,就非常非常的惊人了
It's talked about that there should be a federal government regulation of insurance but it's actually state regulators.
也有人认为应该建立国家层面的,保险业监管机构,但现在的情况仍是各州分开监管
But now, when more and more countries start doing it, maybe it won't work so well.
但是现在,随着越来越多的国家开始效仿,人们会发现也许这些制度并不完全有效
Traditionally, financial inventions were not granted patent rights, but now in the United States and in a number of other countries it has become possible to patent financial inventions.
传统的金融产品,是没有专利的,但现在,在美国,和其他的一些国家中,金融产品也拥有了专利
But yet when you look back from the nineteenth century, these factors do count in explaining how countries turn out to be the way they are.
不过当你从十九世纪开始回顾历史,这些因素的确能解释,国家是如何转变成现在这样的
re now, gong to try to fix those mistakes and work with other nations to put ourselves back on track.
但是,现在我们想要改正这些错误,But,,we’,想和其他国家合作,让自己重归正道。
OK...Let's take a moment to look at India's international relations with some of the very important countries, say the United States.
好的,现在来谈谈,印度与一些地位重大的国家,之间的国际关系,比如说,美国。
We had deposit insurance starting in The Great Depression and that's been very important; it's now in every country.
存款保险始于大萧条时期,一直发挥着重要作用,现在遍布各个国家
For this reason, Plato has often been cast as a kind of harbinger of the modern totalitarian state.
因此柏拉图,常被视为是现在,极权主义国家的先驱。
In both cases, this becomes part of their self-identity. That's an essential part as my good friend, Linda Colley, who used to teach here and sadly is not here anymore.
在这两个国家中,这点是他们身份认同感中很重要的一部分,如同我的好朋友,琳达·科里,她以前是这里的老师,很遗憾现在不在耶鲁了
This is since 1802-- now how many countries do you think have uninterrupted stock market data since 1802?
西格尔使用的数据始于1802年...,你们想想现在有多少的国家,存有从1802年以来,股票市场的完整数据呢
As I already suggested, and I would insist upon this again, that the consolidation of territorial rulers had already given the basis to an expanding, more formalized state structure, even in England.
我提到过 现在再强调一遍,国家的兼并,君权的加强为一个日益庞大,更有章法的现代国家的形成奠定了基础,在英格兰也是如此
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