Portland was a seaport, and this gave its citizens a breadth of view lacking in the more insular New England towns.

波特兰是一个海港城市，相比来说，这儿的人们要比身处新英格兰内地的小镇居民们的眼界要开阔得多。

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Mr Cline's great virtue is his breadth of view and his ability to avoid extreme positions without sounding wet.

ECONOMIST: Poverty in America

This breadth of view, so welcome in itself, has unfortunate consequences when not matched by stringency in argument and a feel for political detail.

ECONOMIST: The morals of intervention

The leading advocates of this view of executive power, unprecedented in its breadth, were David Addington, a former vice-presidential counsel (now chief of staff to the vice-president), John Yoo, a former Justice Department lawyer (now back in academia), and Alberto Gonzales, the former White House counsel, now attorney-general.

ECONOMIST: George Bush's climb-down over the Geneva Conventions