Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis,Tennessee, at a time when the southern city discriminated against blacks in all areas of public life.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

A faith life at home, in the mosque, and a public life in school and in the YMCA and in playing basketball, etc.

在家里，清真寺内，他拥有宗教生活，有社会生活，比如在基督教青年会,打篮球，等等，他拥有社会生活。

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I was not a part of this growing conversation about religion and public life in the 1990s.

我并未参与到90年代日益加大的,对宗教和社会生活的讨论中。

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The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life did a study in two thousand seven on major religious traditions in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The quality that I am attempting to describe is that special understanding of public life which successful statesmen have whether they are wicked or virtuous.

是对公共生活有特别的了解,而那正是,成功政治家们所共有的特质,无论他们是从邪念或善念出发。

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They were searching for a way to protect people in public life from gunfire.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

When he says that his way of life has been private, he means that he has pursued a policy of, let's call it "the principled abstinence " from public life."

当他提到自己的生活方式是私密的时候，他所提的是他追求一种策略，我们可以称之为，“原则性疏离,公共生活“

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And that was how one of America's founding fathers,Benjamin Franklin, came into public life.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

And you never think of those two narratives: one's faith life and one's life in the public square would ever meet.

他们的这两种生活：,宗教生活和在公共场所的生活,从来不会融为一体。

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Clare Boothe Luce retired from public life.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

So the personal struggle of living in a more unified, faith life in my whole being and bringing that self to the public square.

因此，我致力于,在我的一生中拥有更加统一的信仰生活,并且努力将这个统一的自己融入公共场合。

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It also means increasing opportunities for the disabled in employment and other spheres of public life.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

How are we to understand Socrates' claim that the pursuit of justice requires him ? to turn away from public to private life?

我们如何理解苏格拉底声称说,追求正义让他,从公共转向个人的生活？

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He says he even made a deal with U.S.diplomat Richard Holbrooke after the war which granted him immunity from prosecution if he left public life.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

What does Socrates mean when he says his way of life has been devoted almost exclusively ? to private rather than to public matters?

当苏格拉底说,自己的生活方式,只专注在私人而非公共事务时,是什么意思？

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Benjamin Hooks was born in 1925 in Memphis,Tennessee - a city,like most in the racially- segregated American South at the time, that discriminated against African-Americans in all areas of public life.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

It seems like it's not a news flash that religion is playing an extremely important part in our public square conversations, in our political life, in how we are making decisions on questions of poverty.

这似乎并非一条简讯,宗教发挥着极其重要的作用,在我们在公共场所的谈话中，在我们的政治生活中，在我们如何针对贫困问题做出决策。

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But Jim White made it his life's work to make sure the public would see and enjoy the cavern.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

It is a kind of fiery love of fame, love of distinction that leads men and women of a certain type to pursue their ambitions in public life, in the public space.

那是一种对名声的热爱，对卓越的热爱,引领特定男女,去追求他们在公共人生，公共场域中的抱负。

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But in real life they kept their love hidden from the public.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Details of the release have not been made public. In a subsequent interview with Canadian Television, Lindhout described her life in captivity as "extremely difficult."

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

He made a few blatant public relations gaffes, such as saying he would like to get his life back, after 11 people had been killed when the drilling rig exploded in April and oil continued to gush into the Gulf.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

"That does not mean they cannot follow the law." In announcing her nomination, President Obama highlighted Sotomayor's life story as a child of Puerto Rican parents whose childhood years were spent in public housing in New York.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31