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Smith in real life; the shameless mythologizing that allowed Southern Republicans to rise on the Senate floor and somberly intone about the impropriety of filibusters, without even a peep of acknowledgment that it was the politicians from their states-their direct political forebears-who had perfected the art for a malicious cause.

Smith Goes to Washington，拍摄于30年代，描写一名理想化的青年试图改变美国参议院中腐化枉法的经过。

Since modern supercargo vessels are slow, and have a relatively small crew compared to their forebears, they make tempting targets for pirates.

近代以来押运船只缓慢，并有相对较小的人员相比，他们的先辈，他们诱人的目标海盗。

Did you "visit" your forebears in the Tomb-Sweeping Day this year?

今年清明节，你为故去的亲人扫墓了吗？

Tver was chosen because it is the land of Mr Putin's forebears, but similar "voluntary" demonstrations have been staged all over Russia.

选择Tver是因为这里是普京先辈们的土地，但是类似"志愿"的示威游行出现在整个俄罗斯。

We live a life style undreamed of by our forebears , taking for granted conveniences that, only a few short generations ago, were t he stuff of science fiction.

我们的生活方式，先祖们做梦都没有想到过。我们理所当然的便利在几代人之前也只存在科幻小说里。

But this washwoman, small and thin as she was, possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant forebears.

然而这个又瘦又小的老太太，却拥有一种遗传自其农民祖先的力量。

But this washwoman, small and thin as she was,possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant forebears.

然而这个洗衣妇，虽然又小又瘦，却具有世代当庄稼汉的祖辈所传下来的一股子力气。

In the last years of the ancien régime, before the French Revolution, the old nobility, intent on keeping its privileges, had pushed for restrictions of certain offices and orders of chivalry to noblemen who could demonstrate that their family had enough "noble quarterings"(in French,'quartiers de noblesse'), a reference to a noble's ability to display armorially their descents from armigerous noble forebears in each of their lines of descent to demonstrate that they were descended from old noble families, who bore arms that could be quartered with their own male line arms, and thus prove that they did not derive merely from bourgeois families recently elevated to noble rank.

法国大革命前最后几年的复辟中，旧贵族试图捍卫他们的特权，他们推动特定部门的限令，在能证明自家具有足够贵族&quartiers&(法语'quartiers de noblesse')的人中间宣扬骑士精神。

Those who belonged to such famous families as the Cecils of Hatfield House or the Churchills of Blenheim were usually born in the same ancestral home as their forebears, and might very well die there.

出生于名门世家的人，如海特菲尔德的塞西尔们，布伦海姆的邱吉尔们，他们出生在祖先曾经出生的地方，或许也将埋葬在祖辈们曾经埋葬的地方。

Here I am in a pulpit, dr essed like a Puritan minister — an apparition that would have horrified many of my distinguished forebears and perhaps rededicated some of them to the exti rpation of witches.

站在这个讲坛上，我穿得像个清教徒教长——一个可能会吓到我的杰出前辈们的怪物，或许使他们中的一些人重新致力于铲除巫婆的事业上。

I was just taking her hand, to help her out of a car, and I knew it.

我只是握着她的手，扶她下车，但我知道这一切。

China and South Korea have excoriated Japan over its approval of new school books which they say whitewash the atrocities committed during Japanese occupation, and anti-Japanese protests have been held in Chinese cities. The lingering bitterness over Japan's past imperialism still threatens to mar relations between the big East Asian powers

中国和韩国强烈谴责日本通过新的中学历史教科书，他们认为这一教科书掩盖了日本在其占领期间所犯下的残酷暴行，反日抗议活动在中国数座城市发生，历史上日本帝国主义制造的痛楚无法被忘却，这有可能破坏东亚强国间的关系。