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The people who wanted to standardize and lower (or reduce) the voting age to 18 had a popular slogan (or a phrase that many people repeat as a message about what they want to do or change).
想要規范和降低（或減少）選舉年齡到18歲的人有個流行的口號（或許多人口中重復的一句他們想要去做或改變什么的話。）
It was, "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote."
它就是，“能打仗了，就能投票?！?/div>
They meant that since the nation had decided that 18-year-old men were old enough to be in the Army, it should also decide that they were old enough to vote.
他們的意思是既然國家決定18歲的男性就可以參軍了，那么它也應該決定他們是可以投票的。
In 1971, the voting age was finally standardized and lowered.
1971年，投票年齡最終得到了規范和降低。
The 26th Constitutional Amendment (or change or addition to the Constitution, the most important legal document in the country) was ratified (or approved and made into a law) on July 7, 1971.
第26條憲法修正案于1971年7月7日（或對國家最重要的法律文件憲法進行變更或補充）獲得批準或獲得通過并成為法律。
It made the legal voting age 18 years old for the entire country.
它規定18歲為整個國家的合法投票年齡。
The Amendment had some unintended (or unexpected) consequences, which are things that happen as a result of doing something else.
該修正案產生了一些意想不到（或意外的）的結果，也即是由于做了其它事情，而導致這些事情的發生。
After lowering the voting age, most states began to lower the age for other things, such as getting married or making contracts (or legal agreements).
降低投票年齡之后，大多數州開始降低其它事情的年齡，例如結婚和簽訂合同（或法律協議）。
Today, most Americans believe that people become adults on their 18th birthday.
如今，大多數美國人都認為自己在十八歲生日這一天就成年了。
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