In the eighteen twenties, in the state of New York, a man named Joseph Smith started the Mormon religion.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Man is born in a state of the most helpless dependence on other people."

人生来就处在一个极端无助的,依赖别人生存的环境中"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

For by art", he says in the introduction, "For by art is created that great Leviathan called a commonwealth or a state, " which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural for whose protection and defense it was intended."

他在引言中说，因为号称国民的整体或国家这个庞然大物,“利维坦“是用艺术造成的，它只是一个“人造的人，虽然它远比自然人身高力大,而是以保护自然人为目的“

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The man was John Brown. John Brown heard that five Free State men had died in the attack on Lawrence.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

As a young man, Jack Benny played violin in a vaudeville theater in his home state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Werner Herzog's movie "Grizzly Man" tells about the bear expert Timothy Treadwell who lived with and studied bears in the state of Alaska.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

They battle and survive a Mississippi flood for the reward of returning to state prison as the tall man did in the story "Old Man."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

"I do not have a problem and I do not know anybody who has a problem. But the 'boogey man' Obama is trying to state that we have a problem, and he wants to tax us,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02