President Obama has been deliberating over military proposals to boost U.S.strength in Afghanistan by as many as 40,000 troops, while the future of Germany's troop presence in Afghanistan was a key issue in the September elections that returned Chancellor Merkel to power.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The idea that America stood for some kind of progress, that America meant a prosperous future was just common coin.

那种美国代表了发展进步,代表了繁荣未来的想法是双方共有的

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Socrates' death at the age of 70 was intended by him as an act of philosophical martyrdom that would allow future philosophy to be favorably recognized as a source of courage and justice.

苏格拉底死于70，岁0,是他盘算中的,哲学殉道举动,让哲学在将来顺利地,被表彰为,是勇气与正义的泉源。

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The northern states by the Antebellum Period 1820s,1830s,1840s-- was beginning to sort of hurtle toward a different future than what that slave society was perhaps--no, not really slowly it too was hurtling toward a certain future.

北方在战前,也就是19世纪20至40年代,就急速开始朝着,和奴隶社会完全不同的方向发展,但是南方奴隶社会的发展得也不是很慢,它也在飞驰向一个确定的未来

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In the condition where she was made to look attractive but gave you bad feedback about yourself, often the subjects in that condition would look for an opportunity to interact with her in the future, obviously to try to prove that her evaluation was wrong.

当一个漂亮女人,对自己评价不好时，这种条件下的人,常常会以后寻找机会,和她相处，明显想证明她的判断是错的。

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