The president described the health care debate as being in its final stages after a century of struggle, saying it's about the character of the United States rather than merely the cost of health care for Americans.

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There is clearly some kind of an official group that has some sort of political role to play, which is popular in its character.

很显然需要有一个官方组织,扮演某种政治角色,从属性上来说这很常见

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But to some degree Times Square has lost its original character

但从某种程度上讲，时代广场已经失去了它的本来面貌。

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It never lost entirely its original character as an insurgent movement, independent of the state and hostile to it, making claims that challenge the secular authority.

它从来没有失去充满,反抗精神的本原色,它独立于国家并与之格格不入,公然向世俗权威发起挑战

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That, he says, has been our history and what it should say, what it doesn't quite say I think, is that it has been this history not because it is American but because it is a republic, because of its regime type, its regime character.

的共和国，他说，那已经成为了我们的历史,它应该被说成，我认为言下之意是,它已经成为这种历史并非因为它是美国人的,而是因为它是个共和国，因为,它的政权类型，它的政权性质。

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There are hundreds,thousands of them known now, and each one has a specific character and one aspects of its character is that it only binds and cuts at a particular sequence of DNA.

已知的有成百上千种,每一种都有自己的特性,特性之一是,只结合和切割特定的某一种DNA序列

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