其中影响美国人对外看法的主要有“天定命运”，“上帝选民”等思想。

Among them, the Americans' sense of being God's chosen people and the related concept of "manifest destiny" have greatly influenced American view of China and other countries.

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在普世主义的美国本土化过程中，至关重要的两个理念是“上帝选民论”和“天定命运论”。

Under the theory of Chosen People, the Americans pose themselves as people selected by God while Manifest Destiny colors American expansion as answering oracle from God.

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We usually only talk about Manifest Destiny when we're talking about the westward movement beyond the Mississippi.

当我们谈到跨越密西西比河的西进运动时,我们一般只认为这是命运天定

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And deep at the root of Manifest Destiny, of course and there's book after book written on this is a deep and abiding American white supremacy.

很明显,这都源于命运天定,关于这点有很多著书证明,命运天定是根植于美国的白人至上主义

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But Manifest Destiny was in some ways the fuel of the American imagination.

但是命运天定在某种程度上,丰富了美国人的想象力

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