In 1944, Congress passed a bill to upgrade the system, but did not fund the plan right away.

1944年，国会通过了一项升级系统的法案，但没有立即为该计划提供资金。

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If you are not a slave bill collector you will have a lot of free time.

如果你不是一个奴隶法案的收藏家你就会有很多的空闲。

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The giant bill of the chestnut-mandibled toucan makes up a third of the bird's body length, but thanks to a honeycomb structure, it's not as heavy as it looks.

栗嘴巨嘴鸟很大的喙占据了它身体的三分之一长度，但由于其为蜂巢式结构，它并没有看起来那么重。

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That bill would not create an independent consumer agency, but instead a new office at the Federal Reserve, the central bank.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

It's the most simple-- or often called a bill-- a discount bond does not pay interest; it's sold at a discount.

它是最简单的,经常被称为国库券,它是一种贴现债券,且不付息,并以折扣价发行

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The term means it was a sixty-day Treasury bill; that means it pays not $100, it would start at $10,000.

期限表示这是六十天期国库券,票面不是100美元,而至少一万美元

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Why is there not a bill that he's traveling around the country saying, pass this now?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

"If it doesn't have a public option, it's not a bill, " Burris says.

NPR: Public Option Short On Democrat Votes In Senate

This is not a bill for press regulation as Hacked Off or anyone else would wish it: It is a bill to underpin voluntary press self-regulation in the way Lord Justice Leveson wanted it.

BBC: Leveson report: Hacked Off publishes draft bill