But Jefferson is known not only as the third president of the United States but also as a scholar who was way ahead of his time in many ways.

但是杰弗逊不仅以美国第三任总统为人所知，还是一位在很多方面都走在时代前列的学者。

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To help rebuild the library, Congress bought the books of President Thomas Jefferson.

为了帮助重建图书馆，国会购买了托马斯·杰斐逊总统的书籍。

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The United States was an agricultural society for most part of the 19th century. Many people, represented by President Thomas Jefferson, were suspicious of industry and big business.

美国在19世纪的大部分时间 里都是一个农业国家，以托马斯•杰弗逊为代表的许多美国人对工业和大企业持怀疑 态度。

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Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered his commander in Charleston, General Beauregard, to destroy the fort before the food could arrive.

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There's a very good reason Jefferson Davis becomes president of the confederacy in 1860.

杰斐逊·戴维斯之所以能在1860年,成为南部邦联总统

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But none could prove that Confederate President Jefferson Davis or any other southern leader played a part in Booth's plot to kill Lincoln.

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When President Jefferson wrote his famous letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Conn.

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But the chairwoman of the memorial foundation's research committee, Dianne Swann-Wright, noted that President Jefferson freed all of Sally Hemings' children when they were adults - a highly unusual move for the time.

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President Thomas Jefferson waged our first foreign war to fight Islamic pirates in the Mediterranean.

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