His vacuity was a handicap in these debates.

思想贫乏是他在这些辩论中的一个弱点。

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Amid the din, it is easy to forget quite how American history has shaped these debates.

在一片喧嚣声中，人们很容易忘记美国历史是如何塑造这些辩论的。

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The problem was, of course, Nat Turner's Insurrection; it had just occurred in October of 1831 and they held these debates in the wake of it.

问题当然是纳特·特纳的起义；它发生在1831年10月，他们把这些议题推到起义之后。

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Steven Fielding, professor of Political History at Britain's Nottingham University, says these televised debates may prove crucial to the outcome of the election.

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The problem was, of course, Nat Turner's Insurrection; it had just occurred in October of 1831 and they held these debates in the wake of it.

问题是,在1831年爆发了,纳特特纳的起义,他们把这些议题推迟到起义之后

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her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.

分别是11岁和9岁，不寻常的小演员，我们可能会想，他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。

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As a result, these debates have become nothing more than exercises in feigned outrage.

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Economists get a bit irritated when these debates are framed in terms of the "jobs at risk".

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Yet these debates and arguments seem to be quickly stifled when they are brought up at headquarters.

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