The American Congress passed several historic pieces of legislation during Benjamin Harrison's administration: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

We can never just have it there before us or, as I say, if we can--if we can--it's a very, very difficult act of concentration.

我们永远不能只面对着它，或者，要我来说，如果我们可以的话，那将需要高度集中注意力，这是很难的。

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You could think of this as the poem's first -- by no means its last - its first act of poetic disobedience.

我们可以把这当做这首诗第一次--绝不可能是最后一次,-这首诗第一次违背诗歌规律。

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An act of Congress requires a cut-off of most U.S.aid to countries where elected governments are unseated by the military.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

There's a peculiar story that refers particularly and that is the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.

有一个奇怪的故事,1993年格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法。

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Thornton says the new amendment to the Lacey Act is a wake-up call for anyone who wants to trade in the lucrative U.S.wood products market.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

It won't be long before we're using these same kind of devices to both record--to test what's going on-- and to act in the right way and response.

相信不久以后,这个装置就可以同时记录和反馈,大脑的信号,并做出相应的回应

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U.S.and Afghan officials say those same areas act as Taliban and al-Qaida safe havens for cross-border attacks, making them a crucial part of the Afghan insurgency's resiliency.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

That's Depository Institution's Deregulation and Monetary Control Act; what that did was, it eliminated ceilings on interest rates --on deposits, it allowed banks to pay high interest rates.

存款机构放松管制和货币控制法案,所做的就是,取消了存款利率的上限,准许银行支付高额利率

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How that wood is grown and whether it was harvested legally have become crucial questions since 2008, when the U.S.Congress amended a century-old piece of environmental law known as the Lacey Act.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

It's the violence of this horrible act of self-sacrifice, this tragic act of self-sacrifice -- an act of self-sacrifice - intended obviously to preserve the state of virginity -- that grabs our attention and presumably grabbed Milton's.

正是这种可怖的自我牺牲行为的暴力，这种悲剧的自我牺牲--这种明显是,要保护童贞的自我牺牲的行为-,吸引了我们的注意力，大概也吸引了弥尔顿的注意力。

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The Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, which has overwhelming bipartisan support with more than would expand existing sanctions and effectively prohibit any non-U.S.company involved in selling,or enabling the sale or transport of, refined petroleum products to Iran from doing business in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Reagan was a big believer in free markets; we had a law that actually passed, it's called the Depository Institution's Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980--that's actually before Reagan.

里根是自由市场的崇信者,那时其实通过了一项法律,称为,1980年存款机构放松管制和货币控制法案,该方案是在里根执政之前通过的

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