A government study recommended a national highway system of 33,920 miles, and Congress passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944, which called for strict, centrally-controlled design criteria.

一项政府研究建议建设一个33,920英里的全国公路系统，国会通过了1944年的《联邦援助公路法案》，该法案要求制定严格的、集中管控的设计标准。

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December 16, 1978: China and the US issued a joint communique which called for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries on January 1, 1979.

1978年12月16日，中美发表联合公报，宣布两国于1979年1月1日建立外交关系。

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This statement is also much softer than the initial Arab proposal which called for Mr Saleh to resign.

这份声明也比阿拉伯世界最初要求萨利赫辞职的提议更加温和。

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He had ousted a group called the Tweed Ring, which controlled New York City politics for years.

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And we can also write this in an even simpler form, which is what's called electron configuration, and this is just a shorthand notation for these electron wave functions.

而且我们也可以将它，写为一个更简单的形式，它叫做电子构型,这个仅仅是这些电子波函数的。

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And so instead of defining efficiency the way you've got it written there, I'm going to define what's called something different for a refrigerator which is called the coefficient of performance.

现在我们不用,效率的那个定义，我给出一个,有关制冷机的,新的定义,叫做制冷系数。

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It contrasted with the parliament's "ambitious" reform, which called for fixed timelines and enforceability, WWF said.

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Sales grew 12% to 142, 000 units, well above the consensus forecast which called for a 6.3% increase.

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Labour's transport spokesman Charlie Gordon saw his amendment, which called for legislation to regulate bus services, fall.

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