If you think about the American idea as an example of the modern way of thinking about these things, the notion is we can't do anything.

如果你以美国式理念作为,一种现代思维方式去,思考这些内容的话,就会觉得无法可施

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Online voting is a common method of voting. How is it in the US?

网上投票是种比较普遍的投票方式。这个在美国是怎样的呢？

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If you were to say to me, what do you think is the most important thing, however you define thing, that has changed the character of life in the United States in the twentieth century, I would say the disappearance of farmers.

如果你问我,我认为什么才是,最重要的东西,你认为是什么,在二十世纪改变了,美国人的生活方式,我会说是农民退出了历史舞台

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