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Many French politicians and media outlets have referred to this as a “GAFA tax,” meaning that it is designed to apply primarily to companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon — in other words, multinational tech companies based in the United States.

许多法国政界人士和媒体将其称为“GAFA税”，意思是该税主要针对谷歌、苹果、脸书和亚马逊等公司——换句话说，就是总部设在美国的跨国科技公司。

But it has already sparked significant controversy, with the United States trade representative opening an investigation into whether the tax discriminates against American companies, which in turn could lead to trade sanctions against France.

但它已经引发了重大争议，美国贸易代表已就该税是否歧视美国公司展开调查，而这反过来可能导致对法国的贸易制裁。

Both France and the United States are involved in the organization’s work, but France’s digital services tax and the American response raise questions about what the future holds for the international tax system.

法国和美国都参与了该组织的工作，但法国的数字服务税和美国的回应让人们对国际税收体系的前景产生了疑问。

The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain, he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades.

他指出，近几十年来，美国和英国的平均股票持有时间都从七年降到了七个月。

A 2014 survey conducted in Australia, Britain, and the United States by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that young people’s reliance on social media led to greater political engagement.

威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校2014年在澳大利亚、英国和美国开展的一项调查发现，年轻人对社交媒体的依赖使他们更多地参与政治。

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation’s foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century — the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

这座大楼最初被称为国务院、陆军部和海军部大楼，在19世纪最后25年和20世纪最初25年——美国崛起为国际强国的时期——容纳了与制定和执行国家外交政策关系最为密切的三个行政部门。

The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) commands a unique position in both the national history and the architectural heritage of the United States. Designed by Supervising Architect of the Treasury, Alfred B. Mullett, it was built from 1871 to 1888 to house the growing staffs of the State, War, and Navy Departments, and is considered one of the best examples of French Second Empire architecture in the country.

艾森豪威尔行政办公大楼（EEOB）在美国的国家历史和建筑遗产中都占据着独特的地位。它由财政部监督建筑师阿尔弗雷德·B·马利特设计，于1871年至1888年间建造，用以容纳国务院、陆军部和海军部日益增多的工作人员，被认为是美国法国第二帝国风格建筑的最佳范例之一。

While the rest of the world takes the lead, notably China and Europe, the United States is also seeing a remarkable shift.

在世界其他地区（特别是中国和欧洲）处于领先地位的同时，美国也正在发生显著的转变。

Studies from the United States and Australia show that students who take a gap year are generally better prepared for and perform better in college than those who do not.

来自美国和澳大利亚的研究表明，休过间隔年的学生通常比没有休过的学生对大学准备得更充分，在大学里表现得也更好。

In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standards for models and fashion images that rely more on peer pressure for enforcement.

在丹麦、美国和其他一些国家，时尚业正努力为模特和时尚形象制定自愿性标准，这些标准更多依靠同行压力来执行。

Avoiding this rather than promoting it should unite the left and right of the political spectrum.

避免而不是助长这种局面，应当成为政治光谱中左右两派的共识。

Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens — a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands — once lent red to the often grey landscape of the midwestern and southwestern United States.

生物学家估计，曾有多达200万只小草原鸡——一种生活在广袤草原上的鸟类——为美国中西部和西南部常常灰蒙蒙的景观增添了红色。

(47) The United States is the product of two principal forces — the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits.

(47) 美国是两种主要力量的产物——一是带着各种各样思想、习俗和民族特征的欧洲移民，二是改变了这些特性的新国家所产生的影响。

(49) The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th-and-16th-century explorations of North America.

(49) 第一批前往今天美国领土的移民乘船横渡大西洋，是在15、16世纪北美探险之后一百多年的事。

In Arizona v. United States, the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona’s controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.

在“亚利桑那州诉美国”一案中，多数法官推翻了亚利桑那州一项颇具争议的计划中四项受到质疑的条款中的三项，该计划旨在让州和地方警察执行联邦移民法。

Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay, and who would make some money and then go home.

与许多希望在美国永久安家的人一同到来的，还有一些无意留下的人，他们挣一些钱后就回家。

We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.

我们需要让他们把美国想象成这样一个地方：他们可以在这里有所作为一段时间，而不必承诺永远留下。

Entergy runs 11 other reactors in the United States, including Pilgrim Nuclear station in Plymouth.

安特吉公司在美国还经营着另外11座反应堆，其中包括普利茅斯的朝圣者核电站。

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The phrase “less is more” was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War Ⅱ and took up posts at American architecture schools.

“少即是多”这一说法实际上最早是由德国建筑师路德维希·密斯·凡·德·罗推广开来的；他和其他与包豪斯设计学院有关的人一样，在二战前移居美国，并在美国的建筑院校任职。