美国，是一个受信仰指导的国度，曾经有人称呼我们是教会之魂的国度，有95%的人说他们信神，我便是其中之一。

America is a nation guided by faith. Someone once called us "a nation with the soul of a church."

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这可称作党派之争或者文化之争，但无论怎么称呼，这的确使美国分化成两个相互对抗的群体——也使他们分散了注意力，真正的问题出在华盛顿——也使这个故事失去了英雄。

Call it the culture war or partisanship, but whatever it is that divides Americans against one another -distracting them from the real problem in Washington, DC -is also no hero in this story.

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我被称为美国馆之母，在我漫长的公共生涯中，这的确是一个比较令人喜欢的称呼之一。

I have been called the mother of the pavilion, which is actually one of the nicer things I've been called during my very long public career.

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Even such concepts, such great American concepts let's call it that--as self-reliance about which Ralph Waldo Emerson may have written his greatest essay I go read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" at least once a year.

这样的观念,伟大的美国式的观念,让我们称呼它为,自助,这是拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生写过的,最具影响力的作品,我每年至少读一次爱默生的《自助》

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