I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, Dec. 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.

我要求国会宣布：由于日本在1941年12月7日星期日对我国无故进行卑鄙的袭击，美国同日本已经处于战争状态。

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I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.

我要求国会宣布：由于日本在1941年12月7日星期日对我国无故进行卑鄙的袭击，美国同日本已经处于战争状态。

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My first part was Captain O'Hagarty, a dastardly villain in a children's play.

我演的第一个角色是奥哈格蒂船长，一部儿童剧中的恶棍。

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This was really a dastardly move by an administration that said it was a friend of the environment.

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By hysterically hyped claims of "green" energy subsidy-seekers promising salvation from a dastardly CO-2 menace and foreign oil dependence.

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Then he deftly introduced the counter subject: it was indeed a dastardly business but it was all Labour's fault.

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