我们把猫的叫声误听成是警号了。

We took the mew of a cat as a sound of warning.

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They wouldn't have said that because it doesn't sound we want to think that we invented this here but it actually was a new invention in a way because the United States has a different philosophy which the United States has been committed since its beginning to federalism.

他们不会说,因为它听起来不像,这里我们希望大家把它想成我们自己的发明,但是事实上，它确实是一个新的发明,因为美国有一个不同的哲学,这个哲学是，美国力图从一开始就,使自己成为联邦制度国家。

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