Even their contemporaries took them seriously: when Churchill stood against Clement Attlee in Britain's elections of 1945, about half the population heard one or both of their campaign broadcasts.

即使与他们同时代的人也对他们十分尊重，丘吉尔在1945年英国大选与克莱门特•艾德礼(Clement Attlee)展开角逐时，大约有一半英国人收听了其中一人或两人的竞选广播。

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Of the young public questioned, 90 percent stood against drugs while nine in ten feel little or no pressure to take drugs when with friends.

在接受调查的年轻人中，百分之九十反对吸食毒品；而认为和朋友在一起玩乐时吸点毒品没什么大不了的人数比例同样高达百分之九十。

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"This is a decision that we have to make as a nation. Stand with those judges who stood against that dictator Mr.Musharraf, or should we stand with the other ones, who actually defied and violated the constitution and the law,".

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Every country has such myths of course: my native Britain still, rightly or wrongly, defines itself in part as having stood alone against the Nazis back those 70 years ago (and in some quarters, against Napoleon 200 years ago).

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