The U.S. Postal Service can trace its history back to 1775 when the Second Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin as postmaster general to help ensure that free ideas and information could be shared throughout the colony.

美国的历史可以追溯到1775年，当时第二届大陆会议任命本杰明·富兰克林为长，以确保免费的思想和信可以在整个殖民地共享。

Strange company for a respectable man like a postmaster to keep.

这种奇怪的朋友 不像是德高望重的长会结交的。

The postmaster general is a Trump era appointee.

长是特朗普时代任命的。

The job of treasury secretary went to Howell Cobb, a southern moderate from Georgia. Southerners also were named as secretary of war, interior secretary and postmaster general.

财部长的工作交给了来自乔治亚州的南方温和派豪厄尔·科布。作战部长、内部长和长的职位也委任给了南方人。

The letters in question are part of the Brienne Collection, a trove of thousands of undelivered 17th-century letters bequeathed to posterity by Dutch postmasters.

这些信件属布蕾妮的藏品，这些藏品是荷兰长留给后人的数千封17世纪未投递的信件。

" From the earliest we know is that the postmaster started answering letters in 1914 that children wrote." By 1930, the postmaster was overwhelmed.

“据我们所知，最早有位长，他从1914年开始给孩子们写回信。”然而后来直到1930年，来信实在太多，这位长几乎被洪水般涌来的信件淹没了。

Rishi Sunak announces a new law to compensate and clear the names of hundreds of postmasters wrongly accused of theft.

里希·苏纳克宣布了一项新法律，对数百名误遭控告犯盗窃罪的长进行补偿，并为他们洗清罪名。

He estimated that about 3,000 postmasters, 500 station managers and between 500 and 1,000 postal clerks could lose their jobs.

他预计会有大约3000名长、500名站长以及500到1000名人员失业。

If you wish to save a little money every week, ask your postmaster about Uncle Sam's way of doing it.

如果你希望每周都可以省钱，询问张山姆大叔是怎么做的。

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating postmaster general, Louis DeJoy.

美国司法部正介入调查长路易斯·德乔伊。

Testimonies from the inquiry have shown big problems with the way Post Office investigators treated postmasters.

调查的证词显示，调查人员对待长的方式存在很大问题。

By 1930, the postmaster was overwhelmed.

然而后来直到1930年，来信实在太多，这位长几乎被洪水般涌来的信件淹没了。

Monsieur Gabel was the postmaster, and had some other taxing functionary united.

加贝尔先生是长，兼任某些征税官职。

He was also the first postmaster of Glade Spring.

他还是格莱德斯普林的第一个长。

He recognised the postmaster armed with a dark lantern. The light was turned on the carriage-seat which Julien had had taken up into his room. Beside the postmaster was a man who was calmly searching the open seat.

他认出了拿着黑色灯笼的长。连搬进他房间的马车座位上亮着灯。长旁边有一个人正在冷静地搜索空位。

While a young John Pershing was growing up in the post-war years, his father John Fletcher ran a general store and served as postmaster of Laclede, placing the Pershings among the most respectable families in the town.

当年轻的约翰·珀辛在战后年间成长时，他的父亲约翰·弗莱特开设了一家杂货店并担任拉克莱德的长，这让珀辛一家成为镇上最有声望的家庭之一。

Gilbert Perkins triumphantly visits the office of the local postmaster, a lawyer by the name of Isidore Sobel and says, see, I told you a letter would come.

吉尔伯特·帕金斯 triumphantly 来到当地长的办公室，这位长名叫伊西多尔·索贝尔， 是一名律师。他说，看，我就说会有一封信来的。

REPORTER: OK. So, let's say you want to mail and letter, do you have to write the whole name, postmaster Jim Evans?

记者：好的。 所以，假设你想寄和信件，你必须写全名， 长吉姆埃文斯吗？

So when he became postmaster, he just would say, " I run the building that I built." Look how far he came.

所以当他成为长时，他只会说，“我经营我建造的大楼。”看看他走了多远。

While still a tradesman, Benjamin became clerk of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1736 and by 1737, he became postmaster of Philadelphia.

1736 年， 本杰明还是一名商人时成为宾夕法尼亚州立法机构的文员，到 1737 年， 他成为费城的长。