Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of these United States, is everlasting in the memory of his countrymen, for on the battleground at Gettysburg this is what he said: He said: "That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion: that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain;

VOA: special.2011.02.07

"For we assert," he says, "nature does nothing in vain and man alone " among the animals has speech.

他说，“因为我们主张自然演变并不无道理,而人类独立于其它动物之外,是因为我们有辩论能力。

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Specifically you'll see that the rationale for observing the Sabbath is different. God's name in Deuteronomy 5 is not to be used in a vain oath as opposed to a false oath. There are differences in the meaning.

你会发现两者对守安息日习俗的论述是特别不同的,《申命记》第五章的描述是，不可以妄称上帝的名,而不是不可以以上帝的名义作假誓，它们表达的意思。

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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

VOA: special.2009.11.12

"But I hope that the love that people have shown will make you know he didn't live in vain,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.07

Because just the knowledge that what you are doing isn't in vain, because its being noticed,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.25

called Northern Lights, who perform the Bob Marley classic, "Waiting In Vain."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

America's true unemployment rate may, in fact,be higher than the number provided by the Labor Department, which does not include people who searched for work in vain and have given up, or those who settled for part-time work.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02