It then made Massachusetts the most stable state or essentially the most stable state in the country and it was widely-admired.

那时，它使马萨诸塞州成为了美国最稳定的州,或者说本质上最稳定的州,并广受好评与赞赏。

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which I don't know if you guys are familiar with. It's like a rural state in the middle of America,

我不知道你们对那里熟不熟悉。
这是在美国中部的一个以乡村为主的州。

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They wanted the roads for their Army, just like the US Interstate system was originally created in case the Army needed to be moved across the country very quickly if the Soviets attacked.

只关注军队用路，就好像美国州际公路系统,原本是为了苏联攻击时,陆军能快速穿越国家而建的。

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Name me a modern American president who won the presidency without at least some success in the states of the old Confederacy.

谁能告诉我现代哪一位美国总统,能够在失去南方诸州支持后,还能赢得总统大选的

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Other countries have it centralized but in the U.S. it's split up over fifty states.

其他国家均实行国家统一监管,但美国却把监管权分给了各个州

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Sea Island cotton, the kind of cotton grown down there in the Georgia where it was first grown in North America in the Georgia, South Carolina islands, was a kind of long and silky kind of cotton.

乔治亚州,有种海岛棉,最初是生长于美国北部的,在佐治亚州的南卡罗来纳州岛上,最初有一种柔软光洁的棉花

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It's a little bit like the NAIC -the National Association of Insurance Commissioners -recommends laws to the local insurance regulators in the fifty United States.

这有点像NAIC,美国保险监督官协会,它对全美国50个州的,地方保险监管机构推荐法律法规

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