She pleaded with her parents to send her to high school in the U. S. her mother quickly agreed but her father at first refused. He didn't want his only child to leave the country.

她请求她的父母送她到美国学习，她的妈妈很快就答应了，但是她的爸爸一开始就拒绝了，他不想自己的独女离开自己的国家。

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The first several years of the country"s history were marred by Indonesian efforts to control Malaysia, Philippine claims to Sabah, and Singapore"s secession from the Federation in 1965.

马来西亚前几年的建国历史受到印度尼西亚尝试控制马来西亚, 菲律宾认沙巴州为其主权地和新加坡在1965年宣告脱离联盟所影响。

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Sales of the flagship S-class, more of whose buyers inhabit China than in any other country, rose 25% in the first quarter.

此外，今年第一季度，其旗舰产品S-class汽车的销量亦增长了25%，而且其在中国的销量超过了其他所有国家。

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Barack Obama has spoken repeatedly of Lincoln's influence in making it possible for the country to have its first African-American president.

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And "Channel Firing," on the bottom of 51, is also set in the west of England, Hardy's home country, and is set right on the verge of the First World War.

海峡炮声》在51页的下半部分，也是发生在英格兰西部，哈迪的祖国，并且也是发生在一战临近时期的。

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s the first thing this country has to do.

这是我们要做的第一件事，And，that’

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But with the opening of the city's first contemporary art museums, the country's first W Hotel, and a growing restaurant scene, tourists are starting to get a taste of the vibrant cultural life that has been bubbling beneath the city's ornate veneer.

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With the election of Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, the country's first Indian-American governor, Cao believes the state has come a long way in dispelling the racial stereotypes long associated with it.

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Ohio-based American Electric Power, the largest consumer of coal in the U.S., is trying to build the country's first super-efficient commercial-scale coal gasification plant.

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