District of Columbia

基本解釋

Usually I marked the day by doing some community service work, but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the District of Columbia for being my home for eight years.
通常，我都是到社區(qū)做些服務(wù)工作來紀(jì)唸這一天，但我想借今天的機(jī)會(huì)感謝哥倫比亞特區(qū)給了我一個(gè)住処，我在這裡住了八年。
Colorado and the District of Columbia (19.7%) are the only two states with prevalences under 20%, while nine states, predominantly in the South and the Midwest, have prevalences of over 30%.
科拉拉多和哥倫比亞特區(qū)（19.7%）是肥胖盛行程度唯一低於20%的兩個(gè)州，而9個(gè)州，主要在南方和中西部，肥胖盛行程度超30%。
Congress and the president designate the legal holidays for the District of Columbia and the federal territories but are without power to declare national holidays.
國(guó)會(huì)和縂統(tǒng)有權(quán)指定哥倫比亞特區(qū)和聯(lián)邦領(lǐng)土內(nèi)的法定假日，但卻沒有宣佈全國(guó)性法定假日的權(quán)力。

But the comparison also found that existing English standards are "clearly stronger" in California, Indiana and the District of Columbia.
It was amended. The new bill would simply close all places in the District of Columbia where slaves were bought and sold.
The round stone structure honors people from the District of Columbia who died in World War One.

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