Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

  • -- Max Baucus 鲍卡斯

从根本上说,具有历史意义的、全面的、有大量参议员支持的立法更持久。

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There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.

在我们当中,有许多人,无论老少,几乎在我们之中,都成群结队地出没于城镇、树林和田野之间。他们迄今为止的操劳如同蜜蜂一样,只是为了把蜜拿到自己的蜂房中去。

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

再一次对炼油厂立法进行投票,以高油价为借口削弱环境保护,并向石油行业提供更多立法礼物,这是一种极端的误导。

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

我会为句子而苦恼。主要是因为你想用句子创造特殊的效果,因为书中有很多不同的声音。

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

阻止为联合国提供资金的立法在概念和实践上存在根本性缺陷,使我们倒退,弄巧成拙,而且不起作用。

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

经过一个世纪的努力,经过一年的辩论,经过一次历史性的投票,医疗改革不再是一个没有兑现的承诺。这是国家的法律。

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

必须提醒人们,工会在我们的经济中发挥了非常历史性的作用。

Let's cause some senators distress.

让我们让一些参议员感到苦恼。