They were tribal members who came up with an unbreakable code in their complex language that was adopted by American forces in the Pacific during World War II and used to confound the Japanese.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

It was gradually adopted by other countries through time and the United States didn't officially adopt it until 1900.

随着时间的流逝，它渐渐被,其它国家所采用,美国直到1900年才正式采用金本位制度。

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The many civilizations adopted by the human race have shared basic characteristics.

人类承袭的多样文明,都有着共同的基本特征

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"There is the initial definition by the United Nations when they adopted the genocide convention, which is considered generally authoritative.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Alexander, of course, had been educated by Aristotle, when he was young, and so he had adopted Greek language and Greek literature and a lot of other Greek ways.

亚历山大本人幼年时，师承亚里士多德，所以他使用希腊语，熟悉希腊文学,以及各类希腊文化。

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Under his stewardship, the European Union has adopted an ambitious climate-change program that aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent or more by 2020.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

It's unclear which...it's only by...only in the early '80s that they've really adopted measured monetary, right?

貌似一直到80年代初期,美国政府才真正采取货币紧缩政策，对吗？

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The patriarchal stories are clearly not the work of the Deuteronomist, and these stories must have had very longstanding traditional authority if they were adopted without serious modification by the Deuteronomist redactor some modification, but not serious.

那些宗法故事显然不是预言师的作品，这些故事必然经过了传统权威的检验,如果他们是未经更改直接引用的话,由那些预言编写者,这里有一些改动，但不是太多。

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