Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

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The beginning of fall semester, actually right before classes start,

秋季学期开始，实际上就是在开始上课之前，

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I'm proud to say that I have been involved in most of the president's policy decisions, beginning before he was president all the way through to the end.

我可以自豪地说,我参与了总统的大多数政策决定,在他当选总统之前就开始了,一直到最后。

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I can get this to show us how far up we are supposed to go, by placing it on some kind of grid here," and this is this--as I said before, the beginning of the first graph in the history of the West.

我可以通过将它放置在这样的网格中,来表明我们的声音应该有多高,而这就是,正如我以前所说,西方历史上最早的图示法

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Now the problem with that is a problem I mentioned before, that most human genes are not just a straight sequence from beginning to end of the protein that you're interested in.

但现在的问题,是我之前提到过的,大多数人类基因不是一个连续的序列,从头到尾都对应你想要的蛋白质

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