Well, I think the pressing example in the United States right now has to do with people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered.
恩,我觉得,就当前美国的情况来说,最能说明问题的例子就是,同性恋,双性恋,以及变性人。
you know, sort of young children education programs in the United States catch up to nice countries, like Korea.
美国的一些儿童教育项目也在紧跟一些出色的国家的步伐,比如韩国。
Remember, when I asked you about the specificity of America in On the Road, and I asked you to think about whether there was anything there at all?
记得当我问你们在《在路上》中关于美国的特性,还有在那里到底有没有什么东西,在《在路上》中?
Aristotle could never endorse the view stated by a famous American president that the business of America is business.
亚里士多德从未认可,那种由一位著名美国总统所说的主张,即美国的本分就是交易。
If you go to any coffee store in America and you ask them, "How many cappuccinos did you sell today?"
如果你去美国的任何咖啡店,你问他们,“你们今天卖出多少杯卡布奇诺?“
Because it represents foreigners investing in United States and that generates rates of return that effectively can generate that growth.
其实这和外国人在美国投资的道理是一样的,投资带来的收益,是由美国来埋单的,因而,实际上也同样导致了美国债务的增长。
Christian Awuku-Budu is from Ghana, Accra, but he, again, went to college in the United States at Morehouse College.
克里斯蒂安·阿武库布都来自加纳的阿克拉,但他的大学学业,是在美国的莫尔豪斯学院完成的
In the next twenty-five years the increased--the anticipated increase in diabetes is supposed to be about 37% in the U.S.
在未来的二十五年中,预计美国的糖尿病患者的人数,将增加37%
And it's Hawthorne's satire, It's apocalyptic, angry critique of all these Americans who think they're inventing everything anew every day.
这就是霍桑的讽刺作品,这是一篇启示录般的故事,是对这群自认为每天都发明新玩意儿的,美国人的愤怒谴责
This was a time when Hopkins led all American universities in the importing of important European scholars, and it was a place of remarkable intellectual ferment.
当时霍普金斯先于美国的其他大学,邀请重要的欧洲学者来讲学,那里也是有影响的思想动乱的源地。
Think of the Bill of Rights here in the United States; think of the French Declaration on the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
想想美国的《人权法案》,想想法国的,《人权宣言》
One is Dubna in the former Soviet Union in Russia, one is in Darmstadt in Germany and the third one is in the United States in Berkeley.
一个是在杜布纳,位于前苏联的俄国,一个在德国的达姆施塔特,第三个是在美国的伯克利。
People living in Darfur are certainly less happy than people living in Denmark or the United States.
生活在达尔福尔的人,肯定没有生活在丹麦或美国的人快乐。
These are, in a sense, complementary images of the modern in America.
某种意义上来说,这是互补的对于现代美国的印象。
How do you know that your parents, at least one of your parents satisfies the definition? Well I've reduced the problem from am I a natural born US citizen to is one of my parents a natural born US citizen?
这是一个递归的定义,你怎么知道你的父母,至少其中一个是满足天生的美国公民,这个定义的呢?,我已经把我是一个天生的美国公民这个问题?
Yes, and many people have said: "Well, what you're doing is argueing for American exceptionalism."
是的,许多人对我说过:,你所做的,是在试图证明美国的特立独行“
There are now dozens, probably hundreds, of studies that show that people who would otherwise show animosity towards one another, like blacks and whites in the United States, like each other more if they're brought together.
目前有几十个,甚至几百个研究,表明在不接触的情况下,互相憎恶的人,例如美国的黑人和白人,如果让他们发生接触,他们会更喜欢对方。
and this I think only in the USA, New Orleans is the only other city that has cable cars.
并且在美国的其它城市中,除了新奥尔良市,没有第三个城市还有有线缆车了。
But just to make it concrete and to see what's at stake, consider the distribution of wealth in the United States.
但为了更形象,看看问题何在,以美国的财富分配状况为例。
Now, I'm talking about 1900 America where has that happened in the twentieth century more dramatically?
刚才我说的就是在二十世纪,美国的哪些行业发生了巨大的变革
In contrast, if you look at a U.S.City, ten years ago in 1997 for example, then people still died but they didn't die predominantly from infectious diseases.
相反,我们看美国的城市,例如在十年前,即一九九七年,人们还是会死亡,但是最主要的死因不再是感染性疾病
The plane crashes exactly on the border of Canada and the United States.
飞机刚好,在加拿大和美国的边界上坠毁
Those kinds of desires are connected also with that American habit of consumption.
这些渴望也是与美国的,消费习惯相关的。
These beliefs form something like a kind of national creed you might say American national creed what it means to be an American and not someone else.
这些信念形成类似,国家纲领的东西,你可以说,像是美国的国家纲领,这意味着身为美国人,而不是其它国人。
When he's back in New York--this is on page 125 his New York friends meet his road friends, and are delighted by them.
当他回到美国,在125页上5,他的美国朋友见到他的旅途伙伴,被他们逗的很开心。
The U.S. Is actually an important country for regulation because it has been a model for much of the regulations around the world.
在监管方面,美国确实是一个重要的国家,美国的监管制度已成为各国的模板
We are going to go to the United States, 1927, Bell Labs.
让我们到1927年的美国,贝尔的实验室看看吧。
Tocqueville couldn't resist it, it was the thing he couldn't stop writing about in Democracy in America, and he was only observing in 1831.
托克维尔抗拒不了,这使他情不自禁的写下,《美国的民主》这部著作,他仅了解1831年的美国
There are other factors involved too like high energy prices, but certainly U.S. policy is affecting that, but we're also affected by the rest of the world.
还有诸如能源价格高昂等其它因素,但美国的政策肯定是有影响,但世界其它地区的情况也影响了我们
And then the American linguist would say, "Yeah. We speak to our dogs."
然后这些美国的语言学家会说,"是啊,我们会和我们的狗说话"
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