大多数州允许习俗规定的或宗教仪式，但少数州要求仪式是宗教的。

Most states permit either a civil or religious ceremony, but a few require the ceremony to be religious.

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新的规定对大多数人将无大影响。

The new regulations will not make an appreciable difference to most people.

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为了让州议会的主要任务——通过预算——进行得更加顺利，选民们将规定票差降低到简单多数。

To make the legislature's main task-passing a budget-easier, voters also lowered the required margin to a simple majority.

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If the majority rules that there should be taxation, even if the minority should still not have to be taxed because that's taking away property, which is one of the rights of nature.

即使多数人规定应当征税，少数人仍并不一定非要交税,因为那等于夺走少数人的财产，而财产权是自然权利之一。

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