Both had participated in what David Donald used to call the great American practice or custom, tradition actually he called it, of compromise.

他们都参与了,大卫·唐纳德曾经称为,那场伟大的美国实践或美国习俗,实际上他称之为传统,和解的传统

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This is also -I keep thinking how British we are; this is New England and this is the United States, a former British colony.

这也是...,我常想,我们真的很"英国",这里称为新英格兰地区,而美国过去也是英国的殖民地

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There's a group of people in the United States and elsewhere who studied something called the Built Environment- how the environment is built affects how much physical activity we get.

在美国以及其他地区有这样一群人,进行着被称为环境构建的研究,研究环境的构建是怎样影响我们的活动量

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In almost every poem Walt Whitman wrote he seems to be fashioning himself, if not the whole of this American people, which sometimes he did call an American race, as a new Adam.

在沃尔特·惠特曼所写的的几乎每首诗中,他似乎都是在标榜自己,如果不是标榜美国人民的话,但他确实有时将美利坚民族,称为一个新的亚当

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The Chief of Staff is often said to be the secnond most powerful man in the country, after the president who is the most powerful man not only in the United States, but also in the world.

办公厅主任被称为,国内第二有权利的人，仅次于美国总统,总统不仅在美国权力最大，在世界上也是如此。

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The U.S. Government is a big issuer of discount bonds and they're called Treasury bills.

美国政府是贴现债券的大发行商,这些被称为国库券

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We call an instrument of the U.S. Treasury with a maturity less than or equal to one year--we call that a bill and they used to be the only discount bonds issued by the U.S. Government.

我们把期限小于或等于一年的,国库券品种称为短期国库券,它们曾是美国政府,唯一发行的贴现债券

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Alexander H. Stephens, a Georgian, a slaveholder, said the cornerstone of the Confederacy, the cornerstone of their political movement, was what he called "American Negro slavery."

亚历山大· H·斯蒂芬斯,一个来自乔治亚州的奴隶主,用他的演讲为邦联打下了基石,这块邦联政治运动的基石,被他称为,"美国的黑人奴隶制度"

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