They tell a detailed story about different events in America's past.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Its composition is influenced and determined by literary conventions and goals. Now, of course we all know that there is no such thing as purely objective history anyway. We have no direct access to past events.

它的形成是受文学的惯例和目的影响和决定的,当然现在我们都知道了没有什么是纯客观的历史,我们没有直接通向过去事件的途径。

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And I produce different events, and I actually just had a big opening this past weekend. I had forty seven artists,

我创作不同的作品，而实际上，上个周末我刚办了一个开幕式。我请来了四十七个艺术家，

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In the past decade an average of almost 400 events each year have met the U.N.criteria for a natural disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

And the events of the past couple of days do not really improve confidence in the country and therefore foreign investors are very concerned."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

They are steps that are working." Bernanke says the Federal Reserve and other economic policy makers have been challenged by unprecedented events in the past few years, but his objective has not changed.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25