Even though Columbus day is one of the most disputed holidays in the U. S. calendar, scholars say the origins of Columbus day aimed to bring Americans together.

尽管哥伦布日是美国最具争议的节日之一，学者们称哥伦布日原本是为了团结美国人。

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Columbus day became a U. S. holiday in 1971.

哥伦布日在1971年成为美国假日。

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Because of the Columbus day holiday, the Post Office and U. S. Probation and Pretrial Services were closed.

这天正好是哥伦布纪念日假期，邮局和美国缓刑与审判前服务办公室均已停业放假。

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Doctor Smith heads the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus,Ohio.

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And in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, that's how we say it.

在1492年，哥伦布在蓝色的海洋中航行，我们就是这样说的。

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He controls no real estate. He's been banished, yet he is clearly attempting to conquer, comparing himself to Columbus, to conquer in large part through the transformation of our understanding of good and evil, of virtue and vice.

没有不动产，且已被流放，但他明显地试图克服，并将自己和哥伦布相比，他想要克服大部份的人,透过转变,我们对善恶,美德与邪恶的了解。

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In 1893 Chicago held a huge fair, the World's Columbian Exposition, ostensibly to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas but in reality to bind together the city's squabbling immigrants and fractious social groups with a bit of cultural adhesive.

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Europe's map makers may have had an inkling of the Americas long before Columbus's voyage in 1492.

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That use survives today in phrases like Columbus's (all right, Leif Ericsson's, if you must) discovery of America.

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