Chapter 39 The emancipation proclamation 第39章《解放奴隶宣言》 402. The Blockade. 402.封锁 On the fall of Fort Sumter President Lincoln ordered a blockade of the Confederate seaports. 在萨穆特要塞失陷之后,林肯总统命令封

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Toward the end of the war there were absolutely no medicines for the Southern soldiers, and guns were so scarce that it was proposed to arm one regiment with pikes. 到战争结束的时候南方士兵已经彻底没有药品可用,他们尤其缺乏

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405. The Trent Affair, 1861. 405.特伦特事件(1861年) As soon as the blockade was established, the British and French governments gave the Confederates the same rights in their ports as the United States had. 在封锁建立之时,英国政

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In these ways slavery had ceased to be a vital institution north of Maryland and Kentucky. 通过这些努力,在马里兰和肯塔基北部已经不存在有效的奴隶制机构, Why should slavery be allowed west of the Mississippi River? 为什

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For example, the Southerners were to permit the admission of California as a free state, and to consent to the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia. 例如,南方人要允许加利福尼亚作为一个自由州加入联邦,并同

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But against these benefits, there are costs to weigh. 但在这些利益背后,还有代价需要权衡。 Far from reducing congestion by encouraging people to give up their cars, as many had hoped, ride-hailing seems to increase it. 优步没有向

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Getting the Most From Online Shopping Even the most enthusiastic shopper has a bad day sometimes: You can't find what you want, every second person in the crowd seems intent on bumping into you, and y

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Business. 商业。 An intellectual-property exchange. 知识产权交易。 Marketplace of ideas. 创意集市。 A new financial exchange hopes to make it easier to trade patent rights. 愿新型金融交易让专利买卖更容易。 THE technolog

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The Obama administration has unveiled a comprehensive strategy for combating wildlife trafficking in hopes of curbing illicit poaching that is threatening to wipe out elephants, rhinoceros and other endangered species in Africa. The document issued T

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Business 商业 Energy Transfer bids for Sunoco ETP竞购Sunoco Put that in your pipe 纳入油管中 A pipeline deal to exploit America's fast-changing energy landscape 美国能源局势快速多变,一桩油气管道交易抓住了契机 NODDING

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You know why they call him The Count? 你知道为什么他被称作伯爵吗 When he was developing this drug,he experimented on the homeless. 他研发毒品时,拿流浪汉做实验 Prostitutes,runaways. 妓女,流亡者 The police would find

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I've seen a fair amount of Cyrillic back in Afghanistan left over by the Soviets. 我在阿富汗就见够了,苏联人留下的鸟文 Is this Russian owned? 这是俄国人的地方 This is the not so hidden headquarters for the Starling City chap

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You do not mean to die with him? You swear it, my queen? 你不会陪他殉死?女王陛下,您发誓不会这么做? I swear it, she said in the Common Tongue of the Seven Kingdoms that by rights were hers. 我发誓。她用七大王国那些照

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Online retailer Alibaba says it sold $2bn of goods in the first hour of China's annual Singles' Day. 电商巨头阿里巴巴今日宣布,在今年双十一的头1个小时里,其交易额就达到了20亿美元。 也有分析师认为这一数字

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The US government committee responsible for clearing or blocking foreign investment into the country has approved ChemChinas $44bn takeover of Swiss agrobusiness company Syngenta. 美国政府下属一个负责批准或阻止外国投资进入国内的

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When the brave Columbus saw the land, he thought it was the India which he had come to seek. 看到陆地的那一刻,勇敢的哥伦布以为这就是他一直在寻找的印度, So he called it India. Afterwards, when it was found that this was

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Chapter 16 第十六章 Greek life 古希腊人的生活 How the Greeks Lived 古希腊人是怎样生活的 But how, you will ask, did the ancient Greeks have time to look after their families and their business if they were forever running to the m

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Within this courtyard the family lived when it did not rain or when it was not too cold. In one corner of the yard the cook (who was a slave) prepared the meal and in another corner, the teacher (who was also a slave) taught the children the alpha be

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Free exchange 自由交易 The great trailblazer 伟大的开拓者 Economists everywhere should mourn the passing of Gary Becker 世界各地的经济学家都该对加里贝克尔的离世表示哀悼 IF THERE is one person to blame for economists'

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Football 足球 Beautiful game, dirty business 竞技精彩,交易龌蹉 Football is a great sport, but it could be so much better if it were run honestly 作为一项伟大运动的足球,公平竞争能让它变得更好。 THE mesmerising wiza

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