"We have a moral imperative to do this. We are the greatest country that ever existed in the history of the world, the great economic leader of the developed world, but the only one that does have access to quality, affordable health care for our people, and we intend to do so,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

That's the history of the world; the whole human race has spent the bulk of its time farming.

那就是这个世界的历史事实,全人类花费了大量的时间,用在了农耕上

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You have a full monarchy in the sense that both-- we in America talk about the separation of church and state, that is a very rare and unusual thing in the history of the world.

他有一个完全政教合一的君主政权,在美国政教是分离的,这在世界历史上很少见

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But possibly the biggest story of this year's World Cup is the history of the nation holding the huge event.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

If you look at the history of U.S. Taxes, the very simple history is World War One and World War Two.

如果你看一下美国税收历史，里面提到了一个典型的时期,就是一次世界大战和二次世界大战的时候。

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Throughout history and around the world, people have developed the art of forming clay to make ceramic objects,or pottery.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

One that I found most instructive is called The Cambridge World History of Food, which is this very--two very large volumes.

我觉得最具指导性的是,《剑桥世界饮食史》,它有两大卷

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PROMO: "This season on 'Who Do You Think You Are?' seven of the world's most beloved celebrities will embark on life-altering journeys into their family history."

VOA: special.2010.06.28

This quote from Larson, in the Cambridge World History of Food, captures this.

这是摘自拉尔森,《剑桥世界食物史》中的一段话,听好

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Today we travel around the world exploring the history of chocolate.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

You can see that residential investment, as a fraction of GDP, has been very variable through history of the United States since World War II and that it's had a strong relationship with recessions.

住宅投资要计入,国内生产总值,纵观美国自二战以来,这部分投资,变动很大,而且与衰退存在着密切关联

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While much attention is being paid to South Africa as the host of Africa's first World Cup, the nation also made history International AIDS Conference.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

I think we must remember that there were people creating and repeating, and working out, and changing a poetic tradition that started in the Mycenaean world and lasted for the rest of Greek history.

我想我们必须记住,这些进行创造和传承的人民,他们仔细刻画,发展成了诗歌的传统,从迈锡尼社会开始,一直延续到希腊历史的剩余部分

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You kind of know the world we're getting into. It is not a history lesson.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Typically, we speak of the Bronze Age, the Mycenaean Period and so on, followed by the Dark Ages, but after that,you started having refined terms which derive actually from the world of the history of art.

通常,我们会说,青铜时代,迈锡尼文明时代,等等,之后是黑暗时代,但是在那之后,开始有精确的术语来界定时代,这些术语实际上源于艺术史的领域

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"I think it's awesome that a place like this exists, that the children and everybody in America and throughout the world can come and see where democracy began and where it developed over the course of history and the course of time."

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

This has happened so many times in history that governments around the world now regulate banks and tell them that they have to hold a minimum amount of reserves and have a minimum amount of capital.

这在历史上已经发生多次了,如今,各国政府都在进行银行监管,并且告诉他们,他们必须留存最小金额的准备金,以及最小金额的资本金

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