There are efforts under way to designate the bridge a historic landmark.

在努力把这座桥定为历史地标。

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They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as "endangered," a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.

他们敦促该机构将这种鸟列为“濒危”，这个地位可以赋予联邦官员更大的监管权力来打击对鸟的威胁。

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They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as "endangered", a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.

他们敦促该机构将这种鸟列为“濒危物种”，这个地位可以赋予联邦官员更大的监管权力来消除对该物种的威胁。

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One would designate sites for American firms to build two nuclear power plants in India.

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And so what we do, in order to designate the identity of an atom, is the following.

所以，我们要做什么，为了标出原子的特性，这就是我们要做的。

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So, if you want to designate anything it has to be by tangible things like pottery,particularly painted pottery,because it's easier to categorize.

所以 如果你想标注某段时期,你必须借助有形的事物,就像陶器,尤其是彩绘陶器,因为它们更容易分类

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John Kornblum, ambassador-designate to Germany, was expected to represent Washington at the meeting of political directors.

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But the speaker was Dmitri Medvedev (pictured above), successor-designate to Vladimir Putin.

ECONOMIST: Come again, Comrade?

He has a good line to the Russians, but also keeps closely in touch with Richard Holbrooke, the Americans' star Balkan fixer and ambassador-designate to the United Nations.

ECONOMIST: Carl Bildt, a good Balkan Swede