Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

  • -- Lewis Mumford 刘易斯·芒福德

我们的国花是混凝土三叶草。

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The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.

全国洪水保险计划是一个宝贵的工具,以解决全国各地由于洪水造成的损失。它确保企业和家庭能够获得在公开市场上无法获得的负担得起的洪水保险。

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

今天关于公民身份的讨论常常是空洞无物的。这个词在日常会话中有一种略微过时的感觉。当它在国家政治中被唤起时,通常伴随着文化战争迫击炮轰鸣而来。

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

我的朋友们,凡是有过罪恶经历的人都知道,当罪恶的洪流向人类袭来时,一个人会害怕一切;但每当一股神圣的力量在我们的航程上欢呼时,我们相信同样的命运将永远是公平的。

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

把你的计划简化为写作。当你完成这一步的时候,你就已经将无形的欲望赋予了具体的形式。

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

我认为,与邮票和硬币有关的设计可以被描述为“品味上的沉默大使”。

What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

混凝土的好处在于它看起来没有完工。