"I think they were entitled to take action against a budding dictator. But even if they weren't, it seems to me that it is not so clear that he is in the right that the United States should be meddling in Honduras' affairs."

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But most of the free citizens of the Roman Empire, - of Rome, were poor people-- free, and even citizens, but they were poor people who weren't part of any rich household.

但是大多数罗马帝国的自由公民，都是穷人-,他们是自由的，甚至是公民，但都是穷人，不属于富裕家户。

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Many journalizations get made about those websites but they weren't tested against the kind of base line of what the youth culture actually look like.

很多记者圈的人自以为很了解这些类似的网站,但是他们并没有反应真实的情况,到底真正的年轻人的文化是怎样的。

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But they weren't all the same, and they were in different geographical situations, they had different beliefs.

他们各不相同，生活于不同的地理环境，有着不同的信仰。

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They were making risky investments but they weren't reporting them properly on the SEC forms, so people didn't know how risky Enron was.

从事风险投资,安然并未按照证交会规定适当披露这些消息,所以大众不知安然面临多大风险

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Well, they weren't ignorant undergraduates, but beyond that they drank wine, not those barbarian liquids that you drink, and also they mixed that wine with water, so that it shouldn't get them drunk too fast.

他们可不是幼稚的大学生,他们喝的是美酒,而不是你们喝的那种野蛮液体,同时他们也把酒和水兑在一起喝,这样他们就不至于很快醉倒

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They weren't very successful in growing it in huge amounts, but that short stapled cotton that eventually was the form of cotton that the cotton gin made into such a massive, marketable world product, is what made the cotton boom boom.

岛上的居民想大规模种植但没有成功,因而海岛棉,这种粗绒棉,逐渐成为了棉花产业的主流,轧棉机的发明成为了种可大量生产,且有利可图的产品,也因而棉花产业越来越兴盛

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And if I think back to my own childhood again, not that that was the glory days by any means, but I mean people weren't falling over hour after hour from dehydration because they didn't have a water bottle with them.

如果我回忆一下自己的童年,不是说我的童年有多光辉灿烂,而是我想说当时人们也没有因脱水而倒下,而因为他们没有随身携带水壶

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It was The Depression. What was actually happening was, The Depression was killing these companies; they weren't making any money, but they didn't want to cut their dividends because they were afraid that if they cut the dividend people would be upset.

当时正处于大萧条时期,大萧条将这些公司逼上了绝路,他们赚不到钱,但是又不想降低股利,因为他们担心,一旦降低股利,人们就会不安

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So, they created Wall Street Journal Online, which is WSJ.com, and they were trying to make money off of that, but people weren't willing to pay for it.

并且他们创建了《华尔街日报在线》,WSJ.com,尝试从那赚钱,但是人们不愿花钱

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