12 Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫沃尔多爱默生 The United States had won its independence from Britain just twenty-two years before Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. 当美国从英国手里赢得独立的22年后,爱默生出生了。 But it had y

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The inscrutable chancellor捉摸不透的财政大臣The Osborne identity奥斯本身份之谜 As he prepares for his second budget, the chancellor of the exchequer remains a mystery to many in Westminster 奥斯本正酝酿上任后第二份财政预算

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He is almost four decades ago to the day that i and millions of others in Britain cast my vote in favor of my membership of the European Communities. Alike millions of others i believe that i was voting for an economic community that would break sign

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Warsi's Warning Over 'Xenophobic Campaigns' Baroness Warsi denies her switching sides is a put-up job, saying she had concerns about the Leave camp's tone for months.

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Marine Le Pen, the far-right nationalist leader, has gained more support in her campaign to become the next president of France. 极右翼政党国民阵线领袖玛丽娜勒庞在法国下届总统竞选中,争取到了更多的支持率。 On Mon

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这位英国保守党领袖说,我们正在进入一个崭新的时代 -- 政府自身拥有更少的权利(和更少的钱),同时人民借助新兴科技则拥有更多的权利。利用行为经济学的新观点,他探讨如何将上述趋

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Prime Minister David Cameron has warned his Conservative lawmakers not to air their grievances about the party's dismal poll ratings and his leadership on Twitter, reports said Wednesday. Cameron and his new party strategist Lynton Crosby, who helped

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Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫沃尔多爱默生 The United States had won its independence from Britain just twenty-two years before Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. But it had yet to win its cultural independence. It still took its traditions from othe

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HARI SREENIVASAN: And to the analysis of Shields and Gerson. That's syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson. David Brooks is away today. So, let's start talking first, on the politics side, elections, May 20, bi

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默克尔领导的保守党成赢家 BERLIN, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), emerged as the biggest winner in Sunday's fe

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Political advertising 政治宣传 Posters aren't working 海报其实很无能 The pros and cons of Britain's favourite political campaign tactic 英国应用最广政治竞选策略之利弊 WHO really runs this country? UKIP poses that question on

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英国(United Kingdom,UK)全称大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国(the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland),是由大不列颠岛(包括英格兰England、苏格兰Scotland、威尔士Wales)、 爱尔兰岛东北部

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take the pledge的意思是发誓要戒酒(to promise to abstain from drinking alcohol)。 例句: I'm not ready to take the pledge yet, but I will cut down. 我还没准备好完全戒酒,不过我会少喝的。 My aunt tried to get me to take

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Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon appears to be on his way to winning Sunday's conservative party presidential primary. 法国前总理弗朗索瓦?菲永看来将获得星期天举行的总统大选保守党初选。 Early returns give Fi

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A Tory official in Ealing Central and Acton, another Remain-backing London constituency that is second on the hit list, wants a Tory with a heart. 一位来自伊灵中部和阿克顿(支持留欧选区,也是托利党黑名单上的地区)托利

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Voting habits 投票习惯 Movers and voters 搬家与选票 Why moving house makes people more right-wing 为何搬家会让人更右翼 DO PEOPLE move to Conservative bastions in shires and small-town England because they tend to vote Tory? Or do t

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David Cameron refused to answer a maths question - in case he got it wrong. 为了防止自己回答错,英国首相卡梅伦拒绝回答一道数学题。 The Prime Minister backed plans for every child to be tested on their times table when they

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Since Britain voted to leave the EU, there has been a tendency to be downbeat about the countrys economic and industrial prospects. The decision by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank to spend £24bn on buying Arm Holdings seems in this light a welco

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Bagehot 白芝浩 General Osborne 奥斯本将军 The chancellor's fifth budget was full of trickeryyet utterly serious 财政大臣发布的第五个财政预算诡计连连但确实严肃 NOW this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the

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Britain The coalition in 2013 英国 联合政府的2013 Friendly fire 内讧 David Cameron and Nick Clegg have less to fear from the other side than from their own furious ranks 卡梅隆和克莱格之间内忧大于外惧 No Permanent friends or e

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