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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- Paine
[pen]
[peɪn]
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[name of (a person)]
Robert Treat Paine 佩因(1731-1814,美国法理学家、国务活动家)
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[name of (a person)]
Thomas Paine 潘恩(1737-1809,美国作家、政治理论家,生在英国)
Collins English-English Dictionary
- Paine
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Paine Thomas 1737 1809 M US English WRITING: pamphleteer Thomas. 1737--1809, American political pamphleteer, born in England. His works include the pamphlets Common Sense (1776) and Crisis (1776--83), supporting the American colonists' fight for independence; The Rights of Man (1791--92), a justification of the French Revolution; and The Age of Reason (1794--96), a defence of deism
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