"But above all,your visit at this pivotal moment in history speaks to the opportunity before us to build the relationship between our nations born in the last century into one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century,"

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As I've suggested before, his more conservative contemporaries were appalled by the proliferation of religious sects in mid-seventeenth-century England.

这如我以前所说，他的保守的同辈人,因17世纪中期英格兰迅速增多,的宗教派系而惊恐。

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I should have also mentioned another really important information technology that developed in the nineteenth century was the Postal Service, although we had mail before then.

我应该也提到过,另一个产生于19世纪的,非常重要的信息技术,就是邮政服务，虽然我们在此之前就有信件往来。

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We don't, of course, have any original copies of these materials as they came off the pen of whoever it was who was writing them, and in fact before the middle of the twentieth century, our oldest manuscripts and fragments of manuscripts of the Bible dated to the year 900.

我们当然没有任何最早时期那些笔者的,手稿，而且事实上,在20世纪中期之前我们有的最古老的手稿,和手稿碎片都是公元900年时候的。

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A half century before that, Ben Franklin helped to build a hall in Philadelphia and said the top of this hall would be open to a Muslim preacher from Constant and Obal This is the early 18th century in America.

再有半个世纪前，本·富兰克林帮助在费城建立了一座会堂,他说会堂的顶层将向,一位来自Constant和Obal的穆斯林布道者开放,这些都发生在18世纪的美国。

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