Some polling stations stayed open late Friday on the first day of the balloting because voters were still in line at closing time.

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And we were walking through just as they were closing up

当他们快关门的时候，我们碰巧经过，

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To receive in the closing pages of your book one word of recognition for this aspiration, if it were possible for you to give such recognition honestly, would hearten all who believe in American ideals.

其实，在座的很多人,也认同这个，如果我们所有人都持有这种理想,并让其作为星星之火，得以燎原的话,那美国式的理想。

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