9. John Adams , 约翰亚当斯,美国第二任总统,联邦党人,Federalist, 是起草独立宣言的关键人物。
10. John Quincy Adams 美国第六任总统,是上述亚当斯大儿子。
11. resolved and resigned 这里指他的追随者认为戈尔坚定而又顺从,因为戈尔的演说,一方面感谢他们的支持,五星期来保证每张票都应计算的努力是捍卫了原则问题,另一方面也是号召全国支持新总统。
12. It saw no such leeway. 美国高等法院认为这是没有成功的多花时间,金钱的事。和后面句内for all practical purpose the election was over 事实上选举已结束,传达了高等法院认为重新计票毫无作用之义。
13. That decision, by a court fractured along philosophical lines, left one liberal justice charging that the high courts proceedings bore a political taint.
法院这一裁决割裂了哲学思想,使一位自由派法官指高等法院程序沾上了政治污点。
14. But at the end of five seemingly endless weeks, during which the physical, legal and constitutional machines of the U. S. election were pressed and sorely tested in ways unseen in more than a century, the system finally produced a result, and one most Americans appeared to be willing at lease provisionally to support.
经过5个似乎无休止的星期之后,这个制度总算产生了一个结果,一个大多数美国人,至少目前能暂时支持的总统。在这五星期内,有形的,法律的,政体的机器都经受了压力,也经受了一百多年来没有见过的这方面的沉重考验。
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