Can the US change campaign finance rules or minimise pork barrelling and gerrymandering?

First, the state's demographics are changing fast enough that an overly ambitious partisan gerrymander is likely to come unstuck during its ten-year lifespan.

首先，本州的人口分布情况变化很快，如果偏向某个党派的选区划分进行得太过，在未来的十年里可能不能收效。

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Ending such gerrymandering could have major ramifications in New York, as there are few areas of Manhattan, for example, that have high enough unemployment rates to qualify.

停止这一不公正的地区划分会对纽约产生重大影响，比如曼哈顿就没有什么地方能够凑到满足该方案所需的足够多的失业人口。

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The single currency was always flawed; Washington has been paralysed by congressional gerrymandering. But you cannot leave out the personalities.

欧洲单一货币的构想从一开始就存在缺陷；美国国会选区重划已让华盛顿陷于瘫痪。

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For all the gerrymandering, and in spite of the culture of extremism and intimidation fostered over the past five years, ordinary Americans have made clear they have had enough.

尽管有各种各样的操纵，尽管美国过去5年形成了极端主义和威胁恐吓的风气，但美国普通人已明确表态：他们受够了。

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A gerrymander sounds like a strange political beast, which in fact it is, considered from a historical perspective.

一个不公正划分选区听起来象是一个奇怪的政治怪兽，事实上它是来自历史上的观点。

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Most congressional seats are safely in the hands of one of the two parties, thanks to gerrymandering.

由于不公平的选区划分政策，国会中的多数议席始终牢牢掌握在两党之中一方的手中。

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Gerrymandered districts mean that most congressmen fear their partisans in the primaries more than their opponents in the general election.

格里蝾螈选区的出现意味着大部分议员们更担心来自党内左翼分子的竞争，而不是换届选举中的对手。

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But the best way to offer them support is directly, not by gerrymandering the rules.

但是给予他们帮助的最好方法是直接了当地给予，而不是通过不公正的手段。

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There are two principal strategies behind gerrymandering: maximizing the effective votes of supporters, and minimizing the effective votes of opponents.

造成“蜥蜴脚尾”现象的两种主要策略是：最大限度增加本党有效选票的同时，使对手的有效选票达到最小化。

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The political crisis came to a head last week when the government judiciary accused a Sunni Arab leader, Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, of organizing assassination squads targeting Shiite figures.

上周，政府司法部门指控逊尼派阿拉伯领导人、副总统塔里克·哈希米组织针对什叶派人物的暗杀小组，这场政治危机达到了顶点。

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That advisory squad is critical for success, says Bo Fishback, vice President of Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

埃维·马里昂·考夫曼基金会的副会长博·费希白克说这种顾问团体对于成功来说相当重要。

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I was in school during the vice squad, and the protection of the student life ministries…

本人在校期间曾担任副班长和学生会生活保障部部委…

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The start of the Allegro affettuoso is just that: the expression of affects.

开始的快板就是只是感情的纯粹表达而已；

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The venture capital must be offered by foreign and domestic funds, bond corporations and affiance corporations.

中国风险投资业的主体应当是国内外基金、债券公司和信托投资公司。

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Research on the Risk Management System of HTT Affiance Investment Company

HTT信托投资公司风险管理体系研究

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I landed here, regulated the affairs of the vessel, and hastened to visit my affianced bride, whom I found more lovely than ever.

我在此地靠岸，安排了船上的事，就赶快去看我的未婚妻了，我发现她更可爱，比以前更爱我了。

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The dance over, the two, as became an affianced couple, wandered into the conservatory;

舞会结束了，他们俩既然已成了未婚夫妻，便漫步走到温室里；

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He is affianced to the princess, ie engaged to marry her.

他和公主订婚了。

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One's affianced husband [ wife]

某人的未婚夫[妻]

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All the sophisticated wind cross social relationships sprang from the affiant relations need to be justified by law, the first question to be overcome is to make certain about the time of the affiance coming into effect.

婚约关系所产生的种种错综复杂的社会关系，需要法律调整，首要任务乃在确定婚约成立的时间。

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