已经过去了很长时间，但是今晚，由于我们今天在这场选举所采取的行动，在这个决定性的时候，变革来到了美国。

It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.

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所以我们果断而迅速地采取了行动，一年后的今天，最糟糕的暴风雨时期已经过去了。

So we acted -– immediately and aggressively. And one year later, the worst of the storm has passed.

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但18年已经过去，对于今天那些穿着光鲜、知识面广、学识渊博的17岁的人来说，提到那场风波也只能算是遥远的回忆。

But 18 years have passed, and for today's bright, otherwise well-informed and sophisticated 17-year-olds mention of it rings only distant bells.

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The meaning of Welles is that the past is simply dead what we do in present is creating myth about it.

威尔斯想要表达的就是过去已经逝去了,而我们今天做的仅是创造神话。

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