Here is Christopher Cruise reading the Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

This is by the way--just because one can make this claim and, I think, make it stick in certain cases, doesn't mean that the proposition is any less outrageous.

还要指出的是　就算有人提出了这种理论，有些情况下甚至能说通，并不说明这种说法就能让人接受了。

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When Modigliani--this sounds like a very strong proposition about dividend irrelevance.

当莫迪利阿尼...他对股利无关性的表述,听起来有些绝对

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Once you get this information then you are going to be able to differentiate between a risky proposition for purchase to a less risky ."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

In particular, all languages, at minimum, are powerful enough to convey an abstract notion like this; abstract in the sense that it talks about thoughts and it talks about a proposition and spatial relations in objects.

尤其是所有的语言都至少,能够有效地表达抽象概念,在某种意义上来说,抽象概念能够表达思想,能够表述物体的位置与空间关系

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Let me start out by putting what I think is a relatively controversial proposition on the table and that's that this investment management business, when stripped down to its bare essentials, is really quite simple.

让我从一个,相对争议的话题开始,投资管理业务,当剥离种种表象追溯到其本质时,其实非常简单

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