My grandmother was a remarkable woman. 我的祖母是一个很了不起的女人。 But it is important to remember that a steady upward path upon which the Fords embarked began with a morally complicated act. 但更重要的是,与福特家事业稳

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南北战争电影《一个国家的诞生》简介 Unlike most films about slavery, which have focused on the perseverance and sacrifice of slaves in the American South during the antebellum era, The Birth of a Nation talks of rebellion and revenge.

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Lincoln Says He Will Free Most Slaves in the South 林肯宣布起义州奴隶自由 From VOA Learning English, this is The Making of a Nation. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Christopher Cruise. The Civil War began in 1861 as a struggle over whether sta

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200. The First Census, 1791. 200.第一次人口普查(1791年) The Constitution provided that representatives should be distributed among the states according to population as modified by the federal ratio. 宪法规定各州根据联邦比例修

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184. Compromise as to Apportionment. 184.关于众议院名额分配的折中方案 Should the members of the House of Representatives be distributed among the states according to population? 应该根据各州的人口来分配众议院的代表人数

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The law of 1850 gave the enforcement of the act to United States officials. 1850年的法律将强制执行这个法案的权力交给美国政府官员, The agents of slave owners claimed many persons as fugitives. 奴隶主代表们宣称许多人都

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and you have become an indelible part of the history of this school 并让自己也成为了学校历史中不可抹去的一部分 a history that, as you all know, stretches back 大家都知道 整个历史可以一直 to well before the Civil War,

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纽约奴隶埋葬地成为慰灵地 On a quiet Lower Manhattan street, a stream of water symbolizing the Atlantic Ocean flows alongside a narrow boat-like structure,an echo of the ships as they made their way to the New World heavy laden with human

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Two thousand years ago a slave was merely a piece of machinery. Nowadays a rich man invests his money in factories. The rich people of Rome (senators, generals and war-profiteers) invested theirs in land and in slaves. The land they bought or took in

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What do you need to know before it's too late. 应该尽早懂得的人生道理 When you procrastinate, you become a slave to yesterday. 拖延会让你成为昨天的奴隶 When you are proactive, it's as if yesterday isa kind friend that helps tak

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人生哲学 When you procrastinate, you become a slave to yesterday. 拖延会让你成为昨天的奴隶。 When you are proactive, it's as if yesterday is a kind friend that helps take a load off your back. So do something right now that your futu

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The most important skills you need tolearn 最需要学的技能 Learn to live within your means. 学会靠自己生活。 Learn smart financial management now.Learn how to live within a budget and maintain good credit. 现在开始,学些理财知识

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GWEN IFILL: A recently released movie about the peculiar institution known as slavery in America is drawing attention and praise for an emotional and brutal portrayal largely unseen in Hollywood. 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen, is based

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编者:《蜗居》真实地展现了房奴的艰辛生活,让每个有着痛苦买房经历的人都有强烈的认同感。对于房奴的英语翻译,有mortgage slave 和 house slave 两种,哪种更地道呢,今天来看一下吧。 如今

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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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The slaves did all the cooking and baking and candlestick making of the entire city. They were the tailors and the carpenters and the jewelers and the school-teachers and the bookkeepers and they tended the store and looked after the factory while th

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For the Greeks, who loved moderation in all things, did not like to treat their slaves after the fashion which afterward was so common in Rome, where a slave had as few rights as an engine in a modern factory and could be thrown to the wild animals u

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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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模仿文本:12 Years a Slave is an adaptation of the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man living with his family in New York, who was captured and sold into slavery in the south. When he was eventually liberated, Northup described in d

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