In 1944, Congress passed a bill to upgrade the system, but did not fund the plan right away.
1944年，国会通过了一项升级系统的法案，但没有立即为该计划提供资金。
If you are not a slave bill collector you will have a lot of free time.
如果你不是一个奴隶法案的收藏家你就会有很多的空闲。
The giant bill of the chestnut-mandibled toucan makes up a third of the bird's body length, but thanks to a honeycomb structure, it's not as heavy as it looks.
栗嘴巨嘴鸟很大的喙占据了它身体的三分之一长度，但由于其为蜂巢式结构，它并没有看起来那么重。
"If the public option is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote because I believe the debt can break America," he said.
“如果法案中包含有公共选择的内容，我的良心让我将不会允许这个法案进入最后的投票过程，因为我相信它产生的债务将使美国破产。”他说。
The intelligence community needs a long-term bill to fix gaps in our intelligence law, not a 21 day extension.
情报机构需要一个长期法案以弥补我们在情报发上的缺陷，而不仅是21天的延期。
Now I’m not a big Bill Gates fan. But the concept is true not only in business but in anything you do: your success with one habit will make you feel great.
现在，虽然我不再是比尔盖茨的超级粉丝了，但我仍认可他在创业时的真理：如果良好习惯让你一举成功，你会感到很快乐，并因此想培养下一个好习惯。
"The public wants progress, not positioning," said John Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton who now heads CAP.
比尔·克林顿的前主要幕僚、现任美国进步中心负责人约翰·波德斯塔称：“公众希望的是进步而不是原地不动。”
He has made a cast-iron pledge that he will not sign a health bill that increases the deficit, and has promised automatic spending cuts if savings do not materialise.
他发誓不会制定一个增加国家财政赤字的医疗法案，并且保证如果储蓄并不能提取成现金，他将自动减少花费。
The bilious argument over American health care has not helped: this is not a good time for any bill that needs bipartisan support.
关于美国健康法案的激烈争论并没有帮助。
Such a bill could not abolish rights found in the European convention (and common law precedent already protects family life and privacy).
类似的法案并不能彻底废除在欧洲人权公约中存在的权利(并且之前已经通过的习惯法已经保护了家庭生活权和隐私权)。
Each person knows how much a dollar bill is worth, not everyone knows what it takes to make that corn.
每一个人都知道一美元钞票值多少，但并不是每一个人知道种玉米需要什么。
If you’re taking that special someone out for a pricey dinner, why not have your bill go to a good cause?
如果你打算带着心爱的人共赴一顿昂贵的晚餐，那为什么不将钱用在有意义的事情上？
Some now say they will not do so again, if such a provision is included in any final bill.
一些人说如果最终的法案包括这样的条款，他们则不会再这样做了。
More than a thousand economists petitioned Hoover not to sign the Smoot-Hawley bill.
一千多个经济学家上书请求胡佛不要签署斯姆特-霍利法案。
The Senate, where most of the opposition is coming from, has not yet produced a bill.
而参议院——这里也是大多数反对派的聚集之地——还没有拿出一个提案。
He would not accept Tyler's "exchequer system," and Tyler vetoed Clay's bill to establish a National Bank with branches in several states.
克雷不接受泰勒的“国库体系”，而泰勒也对克雷的建立国家银行并在各州建立支行的法案进行了否决。
Mr Obama has said he will fight on for a weightier bill. But the prospects do not look good.
奥巴马说他将努力争取通过更有力量的法案，但是前景并不乐观。
That is not quite as bad as giving someone who is infected a clean bill of health, and thus both denying him treatment and risking his innocently transmitting the virus to others. But it is not good.
相比将感染者诊为非感染者，进而既不给予治疗又很有可能使其不知不觉将病毒传染给他人而言，这种情况虽算不上严重，但还是不好。
The plan itself does not contain any earth-shattering elements; indeed, it is rather similar to a health bill that passed the Senate just before Christmas.
方案本身倒没有什么惊天动地的新点子，事实上，它更类似于一项参议院在圣诞节前通过的医保法案。
As the Economist went to press, the House had not yet voted again on a bill, after its rebellion on September 29th.
一直到《经济学人》定版印刷时，众议院在9月29日那次投票未通过后，仍然没有对该项议案进行再次投票。
These tactical responses, however, often did not work and ended up increasing the overall bill from a crisis.
然而，这些战术策略的效果不佳并且以增加危机的账单而告终。
And a lower tax bill does not always compensate for the expense and monotony of Swiss life.
并且较低的税金并不能补偿在瑞士生活的开支以及其乏味无趣。
That is less than the bill for training a guide dog-and the implants will not require feeding.
这比训练一条导盲犬的费用要低，而且植入物还不需要喂养。
According to various studies, defensive medicine adds perhaps 2 percent to the overall bill—a not-insignificant number when more than $2 trillion is at stake.
各种研究表明，被动医疗总计起来大概占总费用的2%——当2万亿美元濒临危险时，这不是个无足轻重的数目。
The underlying tax bill to which the amendment was attached does not have a hope of being passed.
取消乙醇进口税的修正案所依附的税务法案没有希望通过。
When Bill walks into the room, we are not expecting to have a nice warm fuzzy feeling.
比尔走进房间时，我们可没指望会有温暖的陶陶然的感觉。
"Even if we don't get a climate bill this year, it's extremely conservative to think there will not be a price on carbon in the next decade," Mr. Lehner said.
“就算我们今年制定不出气候法案，说未来十年内不会为碳买单的想法也是极其保守的。”莱纳先生说。
"Even if we don't get a climate bill this year, it's extremely conservative to think there will not be a price on carbon in the next decade," Mr. Lehner said.
“就算我们今年制定不出气候法案，说未来十年内不会为碳买单的想法也是极其保守的。”莱纳先生说。
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