Since all 40 Republicans were on record as opposing the bill, the Democrats did not have a single vote to spare, needing every Democrat and Independent who normally votes with Democrats to cast their votes for it, or else have the vote dead before it ever reached the floor.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

Why? Any violinists in here or anybody who ever played a string instrument?

这又怎样,这里有小提琴手吗,或者有人拉过弦乐器吗

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So, every philosopher or psychologist or humanist or neuroscientist who has ever thought about people has had to make some claim about the nature of language and how it works.

因此,无论是哲学家,心理学家,人类学家,还是神经系统学家,只要他们曾经研究过人类,便会就语言的特性及其功能提出某些理论

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He is independent in a way that nobody who was not a king or an aristocrat in the past has ever been -- a new kind of man, the backbone of the polis as it emerges.

他是如此的独立以至于,前无古人后无来者,一个全新的人,它不断地发展并成为城邦制的脊梁

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