A successful column usually means that I am treading on familiar ground, going with the tricks that work, preaching to the choir or dressing up popular sentiments in fancy words.

一个成功的专栏通常也就意味着我循规蹈矩，采用一些有效的写作技巧，向唱诗班布道或者用绚丽的语言修饰表达大众的观点。

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Senator Helms used the occasion to provide the most eloquent and authoritative description in recent memory of traditional American principles and popular sentiments concerning U.S. sovereignty.

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