?Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
优秀不是一种行为而是一个习惯。你做的最多的会是你做的最好的。
2012-08-12
?modern pentathlon
现代五项运动
由五个比赛项目组成，即射击、击剑、游泳、马术和越野跑。由“现代奥林匹克之父”法国人顾拜旦先生发起创立。
2012-08-13
?Rumors are everywhere, spreading fear, damaging reputations, and turning calm situations intoA ones.
A.turbulent
B.tragic
C.vulnerable
D.suspicious
?题目解析：谣言四起、散布恐怖、诋毁名声，使平静的局面变得动荡混乱。
? A. turbulent 狂暴的；B. tragic 悲惨的；
? C. vulnerable 脆弱的；D.suspicious 怀疑的。
?Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
性格是你所了解的自己，而不是别人眼中的你。
2012-08-15
?If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
如果你连犯错都不会，那么你什么也学不会。
2012-08-16
?carbon-based error
人为故障
因为用户的原因而导致的计算机或者程序错误。
2012-08-17
?Courage is knowing what not to fear.—Plato
勇气就是清楚知道自己不必害怕的东西。—柏拉图
2012-08-18
?They say at the end of your life, you regret the stuff you didn't do more than the stuff that you did. —The Big Bang Theory
别人都说，人到了暮年，比起自己干过的事，会更后悔没有干过一些事情。—《生活大爆炸》
2012-08-19
?Bobos
波波族
由Bourgeois（布尔乔亚）及Bohemian（波西米亚）两词合并而成。
指既拥有高学历、丰厚收入又讲究生活品位、注重心灵成长的一族。
2012-08-20
?For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.—John Burroughs
任何值得拥有的东西都是需要付出代价的，那就是努力、耐心、爱心以及自我牺牲。—约翰?巴勒斯
一种简单的英文词典排版系统 目录 中文摘要 (Ⅰ) 主要符号表 (Ⅳ) 1 题目要求 (1) 1.1. (1) 2 需求分析 ··········································································································································································· 3 总体设计············································································································································································ 4详细设计 ······································································································································································· 4.1主函数 ····································································································································································· 4.2各功能模块设计 ·····················································································································································5．运行结果（附带抓图）····················································································································································6．总结·····················································································································································································································································································································································································································································································································································································参考文献 ·················································································································································································致谢 ························································································································································································· 主要符号表 #include "stdlib.h" －－－为exit()函数提供原型； #include "string.h"－－－字符串处理函数原型； #include "ctype.h"－－－字符处理函数原型； #define ROWS 256 #define COLS 32－－－定义“字典”的大小：可存放256个单词，每个单词的长度不超过31 static FILE *fp;－－－定义文件指针：内部链接，文件作用域； static char a[ROWS][COLS];－－－定义数组：内部链接，文件作用域；该数组的作用是将文件的内容复制进来，并加以处理。因为处理数组比处理文件方便。 char get_option(void);－－－接收用户的选项，防止误操作。若输入“a;”（不包括引号）,那么将视为选项a int b(int count);－－－完成选项b的作用－－接收新单词； void c(char *pt[], int count);－－－完成选项c的作用－－通过指针对数组排序，实际数组元素位置未改变； int check(char arr[], int count);－－－对输入的单词进行分辨，若输入ni hao ,将视为单词ni ，并且提示并剔除重复的单词； void storage(char *pt[], int count);－－－在程序结束之前重新排序存储数组中的单词到文件中。 - 1 -
Unconsciously, English songs and culture the door English elective course is approaching the end. Class see show students and the teacher introduce, played all kinds of English songs, let me develop the horizon and edify sentiment, at the same time, I have been thinking, so much is there any contact between songs, through access to information and personal perception of the songs, and draw some conclusion. The singers found that originated in the human inner original impulse, from the need of life rhythm. People have been using your own voice show their feelings, joy and sorrow. Overall, as a kind of human achievement, music is not only an individual creation consciousness performance art, also reflects some areas and even the whole social cultural ideological trend. To provide an overview of the development of western music, also confirm the western culture on context. Can say, a western music history, it is also a certain sense of western cultural history. From century religious music to a single to the liberation of the Renaissance, to modern music multiple that music development deeply branded with the background of The Times. Take for modern music, such as The s Bill Haley - Rock Around The Clock is in The twentieth century since The two world wars to The people of The world brought serious disaster, trample on The human spirit home. People no longer believe that traditional culture ideal type to save power, pop songs and jazz free rhythm, improvisation skills to reflect the birth of the. But in The s: Simon &garfunkel - The sound of silence is The opposition to The Vietnam war, against racial discrimination, President Kennedy was stabbed The troubled times of The United States was born in The rock. The 90 s Alan Jackson - where were you when the world stopped turning embodies the teenagers in war haze shrouded of anger, rebel emotion. So the western music is a cultural symbol, its carrying cultural connotation and social culture constitutes the echo relationship, to better understanding of western music, will have a better understanding of music background.
有道词典《每日一句》经典收藏 If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to build theirs! 如果你没有梦想，那么你就会被别人招去完成他们的梦想。 You make millions of decisions that mean nothing and then one day your order takes out and it changes your life. 你每天都在做很多看起来毫无意义的决定，但某天你的某个决定就能改变你的一生。—《西雅图不眠夜》 Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man. 优雅地迎接成功，勇敢地面对挫折。 It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. 宁愿保持沉默让人看起来像个傻子，也不要一开口就证明自己确实如此。—亚伯拉罕?林肯 Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. 如何判断一天过得好不好，不要看你收获了多少，而要看你种下去了多少种子。 Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile. 纵然伤心，也不要愁眉不展，因为你不知谁会爱上你的笑容。 You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.—Oprah Winfrey 你梦想成为什么样的人，你就能成为什么样的人。你今时今日所处的位置都是基于你所信赖和梦想的一切。 Life is not lack of beauty, but lack of the eyes to find beauty. -Teenmix 生活中不是没有美，而是缺少发现美的眼睛。 For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.—John Burroughs 任何值得拥有的东西都是需要付出代价的，那就是努力、耐心、爱心以及自我牺牲。 When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work. 我年轻时注意到，自己做事十有八九不成功，于是我就以十倍的努力去工作。
有道每日英语每日英语 Three sin o levater to souccess、 Yu hove ao tatk ete 功成没电有，只梯有一步个脚印的楼梯一。 Wea e wrhta e rwpeetadel do、 yEcexllncee the,n ,is otn naa t, bct a uhbiat 、 重的行复为就了我造们；因，此越不是卓一种动，举是而种一惯习。 Wh tawe now ko rhatw ewbe ieve lis ,in th een,d ofli ttelconse uqncee、 Th onle conseyueqnecis w ha we 我知道的或们相的，本信上并质不重要唯一重要。是：我的做们的。 Strnetgha loe nknws coonlifct, wakneses i besolw vened efaet ,nda i bsor vnnaqusiehd、 强者 懂才斗争；得者弱有失没败的资格而是生，就是被来征服。 的 Grea thtnigsare on tdoe bn yipmlse, ubt bu y seraiseof malsl thnisg rbugho 伟大
成就并的源非一自时动，而冲由一系列小是汇聚事而成的。 lwaAy bes firsat-rta vereisn oo yofrsulf, inseeatd fo aesondc-rta vereisnoof someb dyoel se、 永远都 要做最好自己的而，是第不二好的别。人 Do”n evetrl t soeemodyb etlly o cuna” td o uotg adrea ,myo u gtotaprotect ti! 别让人别诉你，告你不成才了如！你果有梦想的，就要话去卫！捍 Weh new tep sn ohteba tlefteld, iIwill be hTe FirstB oost n Oandth easLt oBts 当我踏们战场，我必将首先发上起锋，也冲必然守坚最到后。 hWtever ais owrt dhoin is worgh dtoig 何值任得做事的值就把得它做好 ！ oSm peeploew ant t ti oaphen,p omse ishwi t would hppan, eohetrsmak ei thappen 、 有些人成功，想有些人还望渴成，另有功些通人努力使梦想过真成。 vEerbody ywnas tapphneiss No 、oen awns pait、 nBut oh cawnyo mauek arainb wo wtihouta ltite railn?
C语言课程设计 院系：工程学院 姓名：苏勤卫 学号：20081000195 班号：05208103 指导教师：曹弘老师 日期：2010年9月
第一部分 1.设计题目： 一种简单份的英文词典排版系统 2实践目的 通过进行计算机实践，更加系统地理解和掌握C语言的基本概念、语言特点和编程技巧。利用系统提供的标准函数和自定义函数进行程序设计，培养利用C语言设计综合程序的能力。 2.要求： （1）能输入和显示打入的词。 （2）能分辨出单词。 （3）对重复的单词和已输入的单词能自动排除。 （4）能按A----Z排序排版。 （5）能将运行结果以文本形式存储。 （6）具有添加新单词并重新排版的能力。 3.分析： 运行结果以文本形式存储，因而要提供文件份额输入输出操作;
通过查找操作检查重复单词；提供排序操作实现按A---Z的顺序排版； 提供插入操作添加新单词并重新排版。另外通过键盘式菜单实现功能选择。 数据结构采用指针数组或二维数组。以回车键或者空格键作为单词输入结束标志对重复的单词自动排除排除可选第一章的查找方法，数据结构可采用指针和数组。 第二部分 1．总体设计 整个系统被设计为单词录入模块，文件存储模块和单词浏览四个模块。 其中单词录入模块要完成输入单词，检查是否重复，排序操作。 文件存储模块把存放单词的词组中的数据写入文件。 单词浏览模块完成英文词典的输出，即文件的输出操作。 这四个模块是整体的设计思路，设计核心，整个程序的设计都将围绕这四个模块进行，各个模块都相互衔接，所以需要在设计好各个部分地同时，还要把握好各个部分的连接。
以下这个是简单的设计模块： 2详细设计 按照上面的整体思路，分别设计各个模块。 单词录入模块要完成输入单词，检查是否重复，排序操作。是设计程序的核心部分，对于检查是否重复，以及排序两个主要方面，我在设计中采用了两个结构体。 文件存储模块把存放单词的词组中的数据写入文件，这个模块还需具有天将新单词的功能。 单词浏览模块完成英文词典的输出，即文件的输出操作。将文件储存模块的内容输出。
每日英语谚语 导读：本文是关于每日英语谚语，如果觉得很不错，欢迎点评和分享！ 1、吃得苦中苦，方为人上人。 If you suffer bitterly, you will become a man. 2、骏马扬蹄嫌路短，雄鹰展翅恨天低。 Horses hate short paths, Eagles hate low days. 3、虚心万事能成，自满十事九空。 Everything can be done with an open mind, and nothing can be done with complacency. 4、千日造船，一日过江；秤砣虽小，能压千斤。 Shipbuilding in a thousand days, crossing the river in one day; although the scale is small, it can press a kilo. 5、有志者立长志，无志者常立志。 Those who have ambition always make up their minds, but those who have no ambition always make up their minds. 6、山高流水长，志大精神旺。 High mountains and long waters, ambitious spirit. 7、要吃辣子栽辣秧，要吃鲤鱼走长江。 To eat spicy seeds to grow spicy rice seedlings, to eat carp to walk along the Yangtze River.
1.Youth is wasted on the young. 少年不懂惜韶华。 2.Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. 渴求被对方需要的念头热切得让人痛苦，这就是爱。 3.Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. 一切都终会好的，若还不好，那这还不是结局。 4.The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. 感到孤独之时，便是你最需独处的时刻。 5.It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. 爱了又失去，也好过从未爱过。 6.What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. 独处却不觉孤寂，真是令人喜悦。 7.Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. 爱情的痛苦比世上所有快乐更甜美。 8.A problem is a chance for you to do your best. 困难，是你尽你所能的机会。 9.Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. 年龄是现实，更是心态。不在意，便不重要。 10.A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. 每个女孩都应该优雅而光芒四射。 11.The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. 暗里花儿最沉香。 12.Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 生活在你深谋远虑时不期而至。 13.A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. 创造的动机是有所成就，而非打败对手。 14.Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. 在差异中寻求彼此的共同点，这就是爱。 15.Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. 待到分别时，始知爱意深。 16.You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are. 无需别人定义，你就是你！
合适自己的才是最最重要的！只记只看只背自己的有感应的东西 温良gentle?and?kind 人妖?[rén yāo]??shemale hermaphrodite lady-boy Hermaphrodite英?[h??'m?fr?da?t]??美?[h?'m?fr?da?t]?? n. [动] 雌雄同体；阴阳人；两性体；[植] 雌雄同株 adj. [动] 雌雄同体的 英拉?Yingluck 总理prime?minister premier 1Some birds are not meant to be caged; their feathers are just too bright. 有些鸟儿是注定不会被关在牢笼里，它们的每一片羽毛都闪耀着光辉。 2Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. 有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。 3The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. 通往成功的路旁充斥许多诱人的休息区。adj. 吸引人的；诱惑人的
4Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness. 自由是做你自己喜欢的事，而幸福却是喜欢你自己做的事。 5If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to build theirs. 如果你没有梦想，那么你只能为别人的梦想打工。 6He that travels far knows much. 见多才能识广。 7With friends at one's side, the life displays all its value. 有了朋友，生命才完整。 8Honor old people as we do our own aged parents. 老吾老，以及人之老。 9It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live.人不能活在梦里，不要依赖梦想而忘记生活。 10To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter. 对一个日渐变老的父亲来说，闺女是最珍贵的。 11Firsthand experience 亲身体验 12Love me little and love me long. 不求情意绵绵，但求天长地久。
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. 不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。 Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. 人生是一幅大画布，你应该努力绘出绚丽多彩的画面. If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered. 宝石即使落在泥潭里，仍是一样可贵；尘土纵然扬到天上，还是没有价值。 We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old but more like ourselves. 随着年龄的增长，我们并不变得更好也不变得更坏，而是变得更像我们自己。 When I was young, happiness was simple; now that I've grown up, simplicity is happiness. 小时候，幸福是件很简单的事；长大后，简单是件很幸福的事。 At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. 二十岁时起支配作用的是意志，三十岁时是机智，四十岁时是判断。—Benjamin Franklin I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. 我走得很慢，但是我从来不会后退。—林肯 It is said that you will appear in the dreams of others when you fail to fall asleep. 据说当你失眠的时候，你将会在别人的梦里出现。 Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. 奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命地努力。 If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. 如果你要活到一百岁，那么我只要活到一百岁差一天，这样我就不用度过没有你陪伴的分分秒秒。——《小熊维尼》 If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. 如果我们对过去和现在纠缠不休，那么我们就会发现，我们丧失了未来。 Do not rack your brains on scheming to get friendship, otherwise, it becomes sort of business trade. 友情不可费力经营，要不然就成了生意。 The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them. 生命的价值不在于能活多少天，而在于我们如何使用这些日子。 Persistence is the common trait of anyone who has had a significant impact on the world. 坚持是世界上每个有所建树的人共有的品质。 Whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to attain it. 不论什么时候，只要你有一个目标，就得牺牲一定的自由去实现它。 The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. 所有的好书，读起来就如同和过去世界上最杰出的人谈话。 Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts. 即使没有人为你鼓掌，也要优雅的谢幕，感谢自己的认真付出。
Everyone has his inherent ability which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness. 每个人都有潜能，只是很容易被习惯所掩盖，被时间所迷离，被惰性所消磨。 Man might think that few women fit him before his marriage, and contrarily when they get married. 男人在结婚前觉得适合自己的女人太少，结婚后觉得适合自己的女人很多。 If you‘re walking down the right path and you‘re willing to keep walking, eventually you‘ll make progress. 如果你走的道路正确，并坚持走下去，最终你会成功的。 The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, they make them. 在这个世界上，取得成功的人是那些努力寻找他们想要机会的人，如果找不到机会，他们就去创造机会。 Don't part with your illusions . When they are gone you may still exist , but you have ceased to live. 千万不要放弃梦想。当梦想消失的时候，尽管你还存在，但是你虽生犹死。 Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. 历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深刻；伦理使人庄重；逻辑修辞学使人善辨。 Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life. 理想是指路明灯。没有理想，就没有坚定的方向；没有方向，就没有生活。 Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. 幸福不在于拥有金钱，而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情。 The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. 痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。 Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. 与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运，不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you. 在你想了解别人也想让别人了解你之前，先完善并了解自己。
牛津词典系列 牛津辞典是英国牛津大学出版社出版的多种英语词典的统称，是英国语言词典的代表。牛津词典详细追溯了每个英语词的历史演变（对其最早的出现年代有明确的标注），释义和引证繁富，因而是英语词汇的最高权威。 牛津老大 The Oxford English Dictionary，20 Volume Set《牛津英语大辞典》【查早到1150年（的古旧词）】类似《汉语大词典》 牛津老大：最高级的牛津词典，就是The Oxford English Dictionary（20 Volume Set）简称OED，这是牛津兄弟的老大，也是英语词典界的圣经。它一共有20卷，目前国内书商动辄索价￥20000RMB。这么贵的词典谁会买呢？问得好。其实，没有任何人能够读完这本词典，它的存在更具有象征意义，象征着人类对知识无限的追求。 然而人类的这点成就这一切，在电子时代失去了骇人的体量和质感。OED的光盘版，只需要两张CD-ROM。但凡买过这套电子版的人，无不怨声载道，因为它的接口设计实在太差了。查完一个词之后，居然没有一个后退键。只能用鼠标浏览，但又不支持鼠标右键的COPY和粘贴。总之，如果花钱买来的话，大概会非常痛苦。 顺便说一句，The Oxford English Dictionary（20 Volume Set）有个缩印版，The Compact Oxford English Dictionary，内容跟OED一样，价格只要￥3200，但字体非常恐怖，是把OED四页的内容印到一页上，如果你不想写一部失乐园续集的话，最好还是打消买它的念头。 牛津老二 The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary，2 Vol.Set《牛津简编英语词典》【查早到17世纪（的古旧词）】类似《辞源》 牛津老二：The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary （2 Vol. Set），可能是牛津也觉得自己浪费森林太不象话，于是出了一个简编版。不要以为看到Shorter，就真Shorter，其实，这是牛津家族中第二大的词典。两大本3888页的厚度，也够意思了。这本词典在国内由上海外语教育出版社引进第五版。网上可以找到供Mdict词典软件使用的牛津简编词典包。 牛津老三 The New Oxford Dictionary of English《新牛津英语大词典》【查现代的（百科新词）】类似《辞海》 该词典国内已经出版了，双解版名为《新牛津英汉双解大词典》（上海外语教育出版社），在网上也要卖￥315左右。如果OED和SOED侧重词源学，引经据典太多，太学术的话，那么ODE就是给人类预备的。不过这本词典的中文翻译挺讨厌，因为把每个例句都翻译了，包括：“Yes，I will.” 这样的。如果你想拥有一本英英的原版，先不要急着去亚马逊下单，下面有一个终极解决办法，金山词霸2009[牛津版]收录其双解版。 牛津老四 Concise Oxford Dictionary《牛津简明英语词典》【查现代的（英文新词）】类似《现代汉语词典》 该词典是大学级别词典（College Dictionary），中高级用用也足够了，简称COD。由外语教学与研究出版社引进。
有道每日英语 The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. 痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。 miserable ['miz?r?bl] adj.1. 不幸的，悲惨的，可悲的，可叹的 2. (人)痛苦的，苦恼的，流露痛苦的 3. 令人痛苦的，令人难受的 4. 贫困的，可怜的 5. 小(或少)得可怜的 6. 糟糕的，蹩脚的，拙劣的 7. 可耻的，卑鄙的，卑劣的 8. 肮脏的，邋遢的 9. [口语]身体不舒服的 10. [主澳大利亚英语]吝啬的，小气的 n.遭受苦难的人；不幸的人；极度贫困的人 leisure ['le??] n.1. 空闲，闲暇 2. 悠闲，悠然；安逸，从容自如 adj.1. 空闲的，闲暇的；业余的 2. 有空闲的 What is work and leisure now in a society where you don't have to produce everything for yourself? 在这个社会你不用为自己生产一切,工作和闲暇又意味着什么呢 bother ['b?e?] vt.1. 使烦恼，使恼怒；使焦虑；打扰，纠缠，麻烦： Her baby sister bother her for candy. 她的小妹妹缠着她要糖果。 Don't bother me now.Can't you see I'm trying to work? 别来打扰我。你没看见我正在试图工作吗? 2. 迷惑，使…变糊涂，把…弄糊涂；使紧张不安，使慌张，使担心： Her inability to understand the problem bothered her. 她对这问题不能理解使她迷惑不已。 3. 困扰，烦扰： My cold still bothers me. 我的感冒仍然困扰着我。 Her sore foot bothers her. 她的痛脚困扰着她。 4. [英国口语][用于祈使句]让…见鬼去吧： Bother the lot of you!Get out of here! 你们这班讨厌的家伙!滚出去! vi.1. [通常用于否定句]麻烦，费心，烦心，操心；尽力： Don't bother to reply. 不必费心答复。 Don't bother to get up. 请别起来。
America is the land of the free, home of the brave... the white picket fences, the 2.5 kids in every "modern family." Or so we've been led to believe. 美国，自由的沃土，勇者的家园...屋外环绕着白色尖桩篱笆，屋内奔跑着平均2-3个小孩——典型的“美国现代家庭”图景。而这些都只是我们印象中的美国。 Myth 1: America Is A Democracy 谣言1：美国是个民主国家 In the current age, America and democracy are synonymous. Little do most Americans know they don't actually live in a democracy. America was actually founded as a Constitutional Republic, as stated in the Constitution and the Pledge of Allegiance. In an Economist ranking of the world's democratic countries in 2006, America didn't even crack the top 10. 当前，“美国”和“民主”似乎已成了同义词。然而绝大部分美国人不知道的是，他们生活的这个国家，并不是个民主国家。美国最初是作为一个宪法共和国而建立的，这一点在《宪法》和《效忠宣誓》中都有体现。在06年《经济学人》进行的一项全球民主国家排名中，美国甚至没有挤进前十。 Myth 2: The Founding Fathers Were Christian 谣言2：美国是由一群基督徒建立的 This is both true and false. A large number of the Founding Fathers were associated with various sects of the Christian church, like Protestantism and Lutheranism. However, many still openly opposed organized religion. Thomas Jefferson practiced Deism, which contends that reason and observation of the natural world are enough to determine the universe has a creator without the need for organized religion. 这句话半对半错。美国的开国者之中有一大批从属于基督教会的不同分支，如新教、路德教。然而，也有很多人公然反对有组织的宗教。Thomas Jefferson就信奉自然神教，该教的主张是：自然世界的推理和观察足以说明世界存在着创始者，并不需要通过组织教会来证明这一点。