uncle sam
山姆大叔,叔叔,大叔,叔父
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- : a personification of the government or people of the U.S.: represented as a tall, lean man with white chin whiskers, wearing a blue tailcoat, red-and-white-striped trousers, and a top hat with a band of stars.
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If you’re going to see Uncle Sam take 40 cents on the dollar for the money you make in an investment, it’s a less appealing risk to take.
Accordingly, Uncle Sam might even become a more significant player in the crypto marketplace in the months and years to come.
Uncle Sam really doesn’t know how often police use force, much less why they do so or even whether the force used was justifiable.
So even those families who don’t make enough to pay Uncle Sam would get a monthly check from the IRS and not have to pay it back.
Even better, when we file our taxes next spring, we'll get a $7,500 credit from Uncle Sam.
The End of Gangs By Sam Quinones, Pacific-Standard Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang.
On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.
Back when Sam went upstate, job searches required nothing more than a typewriter, some paper, and the classifieds.
Gunfire was exchanged and Sam, who was unarmed, was wounded.
“We would just as soon stay away from a group that will create controversy,” the Cubs general manager Sam Bernabe told the paper.
As long as may be necessary, Sam,” replied Mr. Pickwick, “you have my full permission to remain.
The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
“It means, my dear, that the Dragoons and the 60th will have to teach these impudent rebels a much-needed lesson,” said her uncle.
Sam sat opposite him in perfect silence, waiting, with eager curiosity, for the termination of the scene.
He could not bear to open his dreadful situation to his Uncle David, nor to kill himself, nor to defy the vengeance of Longcluse.