The citizens Handbook is meant to encourage the emergence of more active citizens - people motivated by an interest in public issues, and a desire to make a difference beyond their own private lives.

这本《公民手册》的目的是鼓励更多的更积极活跃的公民的出现，他们对感兴趣的公众问题具有积极性，渴望在自己生活之外获得完全不同的经历。

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He says he and U. S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton agree that everything is on the table - this includes issues of common interest, as well as areas of difference.

他说，他和美国国务卿克林顿都同意任何事都可以拿到桌面上来谈——包括两国有共同兴趣的问题，以及两国存在分歧的领域。

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About a fifth of consumers are uninterested in such issues and about a third cannot see what difference their purchasing makes.

约有五分之一的消费者对这类问题不感兴趣，约有三分之一的人看不出他们的购买行为能起到什么作用。

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We merely showed that there had been a discussion and a difference of opinion on some issues but we did not say what we had agreed on, and we agreed on the main parameters of the new United Nations resolution on Iraq.

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When Obama and his supporters refer to income inequality, they are taking a complex set of economic and social issues and boiling them down to a single data point: how large is the difference between the annual incomes of top earners compared with those on the bottom of the income scale.

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In future, Mr Buffett may need to put on a more convincing show of having at least tried to make a difference on issues such as dams and Darfur.

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