他的同僚认为商务大臣曼德尔森太过粗鲁(而且他可能不太合适)；胡恩因伊拉克战争名声不好；并且他们需要一个女人。

His colleagues deemed Lord Mandelson too abrasive (and he may not have been available anyway); Mr Hoon was tainted by Iraq; and they wanted a woman.

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One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

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