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The facts listed above show a poor human rights record of the United States, which forms not only a sharp contrast with its image of a self-claimed "advocate of human rights," but also disaccord with its level of economic and social development and international status.

从以上事实可以看出，美国糟糕的人权纪录不仅与其自我标榜的"人权大国"的神话形成鲜明的对照，而且与美国的经济社会发展水平和国际地位极不相称。

Like America's estate duty it remains a levy on the amount left by the deceased and does not tax what individual beneficiaries receive.

美国在1916年开始征收不动产税，英国的遗产税紧随其后，它可以追溯到1964年征收的遗嘱税，在1894年已有现代雏形，从1986年开始，虽然与继承税没有什么相似之处，但大家仍常将二者搞混，比如说美国的不动产税，征收所有遗产中的一部分作为抵押品，而不是对接收遗产的个人受益者征税。

We've all learned about the courageous acts of former slaves in American history like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman—but while the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 officially put an end to slavery in the United States, human trafficking is still at critical mass and rising in many parts of the world, with more than 27 million people enslaved today.

我们对于美国前奴隶及废奴主义者弗雷德里克·道格拉斯，海丽特·塔布曼的英雄事迹早已耳熟能详——但尽管1863年制定的《解放黑奴宣言》官方上终止了美国的奴隶制，却没能从根本上阻止全世界各地贩卖人口的恶潮，直到今天，仍有超过两千七百万的人遭奴役。

In his acceptance speech Locke cited his family's history in the United States, including his grandfather, who came from China 100 years ago to work as a houseboy in exchange for English lessons.

在他的提名演说中，骆家辉介绍了他们家族在美国的历史包括他祖父的经历。100年前骆的祖父从中国来到美国，他以做男仆的工作来交换英语课程。

Vietnam War had a strong impact on American politics and economy and social fields. However, relative to American politics and society, the war had a limited effect on American economy.

越南战争对美国的政治、经济和社会等方面都产生了极大的冲击，但相对于政治和社会方面的影响，战争对美国经济的作用却是有限的。

Whenever a crisis endangered the prosperity of the United States—as for example the savings and loan crisis in the late 1980s, or the collapse of the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management in 1998—the authorities intervened, finding ways to bail out the failing institutions and providing monetary and fiscal stimulus when the pace of economic activity was endangered.

一旦金融危机对美国的繁荣产生威胁（例如20世纪80年代末的储蓄和贷款危机，以及1998年对冲基金公司美国长期资本管理公司的倒闭），政府就会出面干预，制定政策，解救受困的金融机构，在经济活动放缓的时候出台货币和财政刺激政策。

In other lectures, you will learn how various ways to measure and analyze the economy were first developed—for example, how America's first statistical definition of poverty was formulated by one person, Social Security Administration employee Mollie Orshansky, in the 1960s.

在其他的讲座，您将学习如何把不同的方法来测量和分析美国经济的首次开发，例如，到美国的第一个贫困的统计定义是由一个人，社会安全局雇员莫利奥珊斯基在20世纪60年代，制定。

The price of this kind of life is all efforts necessary to maintain American interests, including letting the silly House of Saud rule over that prosperous nation, and keeping despots like Suharto, Noriega and Saddam who serve America in place, this is also true.

这种生活的代价是全力维护美国的利益，包括让愚蠢的沙特王室继续统治这个富裕的国家，让苏哈托、诺列加、萨达姆这样的暴君存在，为美国效力充当前驱。这也是真的。

Because of the nub of the whole purpose of your president is to keep you now, and your children later, and your grandchildren much later, out of a last-ditch war for the preservation of American independence and all of the things that American independence means to you and to me and to ours.

因为你们总统所有目的的核心，就是想让你们，你们的孩子，你们的子孙后代，不需要再通过拼死抵抗来维护美国的独立，以及美国的独立赋予你我、我们大家一切。

Even now, after 25 years of growth, China's per capita output is only 15 percent of that of the United States. Japan's was a fifth of that of the United States in 1950, even before its record-breaking growth surge began.

即使经过25年的增长，目前它的人均GDP也只有美国的15%。1950年，日本GDP是美国的五分之一，这是在日本开始高速增长之前的情形。

Singer Leona Lewis and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page emerged as the bus transformed into a grass-covered carnival float, and the pair combined for a rendition of "Whole Lotta Love".

歌手leona刘易斯和前率领的飞艇的吉他手吉米页出现巴士转化为基层所涵盖的嘉年华花车，和一双合并为一移交&整个lotta爱&。

This is Kate, and that's Erin.

这是凯特，那个是爱朗。