But Secretary Gates on the first visit to Tokyo by a senior U.S.official since the new Japanese government took office - says he will remind the new Japanese leaders that Afghanistan is a NATO and coalition effort and that Japan's refueling mission did more to help other countries than it did to help the United States directly.

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That's why all these arguments that we all get into these days about third-party political candidates what do we really need in our political culture, what would break apart the stagnation of our two-party system, if that's what people want or put more directly, will Michael Bloomberg run or not?

这就是我们今天为何面对这些争论,关于第三方党派的候选人,也就是我们的政治文化中究竟需要什么,什么能打破我们两党制停滞不前的现状呢,如果这是人民所愿,或者更直接的说,迈克尔.布隆伯格的做法行得通吗

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And what you can see directly from looking at this energy level diagram, is that the molecule that we have is now more stable in the individual atoms.

你从直接看,能级图中会发现，分子比单个的,原子能量更低。

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But since it is my intent to write something useful to whoever understands it, it has appeared to me more fitting to go directly to the effectual truth of things than to the imagination of it.

但因为我的目的是,书写一些对任何懂的人,有用的东西，所以最合适的方式是,直接书写事情的有力事实,而非妄想。

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So, what happens with all this is that absolute rule impinges directly on the lives of ordinary people more than kingly, or queenly, or princely, or archbishoply power had intruded on the lives of ordinary people before that.

随之而来的结果就是,绝对王权统治,比起之前的王室以及教会的统治,对普通民众的直接影响要严重地多

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