Case in point: Even with passage of the lame-duck tax deal, hey still don't know what their tax burden will be two years from now.

有一个很好的例子是：因为美国通过了一个糟糕的税收政策，他们不知道以后两年的税收负担是什么。

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A further stimulus to invention came from the "premium" system, which preceded our patent system and for years ran parallel with it. (NETEM 1996, Passage 4, Paragraph 5)

推动发明的另一刺激因素来自"奖赏"制度，它产生于我们的专利制度之前，且多年来与后者一同实施。

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With the relentless passage of the years, we still harbor the same emotions leave traces in our mundane lives.

随着岁月的无情流逝，我们是否还怀有同样的情感在我们凡俗的生命中留下痕迹。

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But I want to begin today with another passage, from the war years, and ask now from a Northern point of view, how do we get to Uriah Parmelee?

但是今天我要以另外一篇文章做开始,自开战那年,从北方角度来看,我们要如何理解乌利亚·帕米利

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