America was now going to be the nation of progress.

美国将成为一个进步的国家

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And America has to recognise that we're one nation playing our role and trying with other nations to create a world that stands for universal values or that lives up to universal values.

我们必须意识到，我们只是一个国家,做好我们的本分,试着和其他国家一道,建造一个拥有共同价值观的世界,或追求共同价值观的世界。

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And as Walt Whitman wrote in poem after poem, and other poets did as well, and politicians said over and over and over and over America, and this United States, this nation formed there would be the beginning of a new man, a new start for humankind.

对此沃尔特·惠特曼和其他诗人,写下了众多的诗篇,政治家们也对此喋喋不休,这片土地上,在美利坚合众国,人们可以获得新生,这也是,人类的新起点

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