这次紧张的竞选几乎是上个月在佐治亚州和南达科他州选举的翻版，由一个共和党的挑战者竞争一个现任的民主党人。

The tight race is almost a duplicate of the elections in Georgia and South Dakota last month that pitted a Republican challenger against a Democratic incumbent.

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事实上，一个特殊的目的是将更多的严格和透明度引入到一个保守党认为被布莱尔不拘小节的方式破坏的体系中。

Indeed, a specific aim was to introduce more rigour and transparency into a system the Tories believed had been undermined by Mr Blair's casual approach.

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棒球名人杰基·罗宾逊是全美职业棒球联合会第一个黑人球员，辞去了他作为洛克·菲勒助手的职位，因为他不能支持一个在他看来是“种族主义者”的共和党竞选班子。

Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, the first black to play in the major leagues, resigned his post as an aide to Rockefeller because he could not back a Republican ticket he saw as racist.

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His father was a democrat in czarist Russia, and he was quite a reformer. At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919, there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.

他的父亲在沙皇俄国是一个民主党人，他是一个改革家，当时布尔什维克党在1919年统治者俄国,他们家在那之后很快就离开俄国。

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