But I was reminded of the story about Bruce Lee, the famous kung-fu actor: when he first met his mother-in-law (a Caucasian) and introduced himself as an American born in the USA, she allegedly replied, "You're an American citizen, not an American.
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不,我不是美国人。
她不是美国人。
But I'm not an American, so I don't have to squander my RM.
但是我不是美国人,所以我不用挥霍我的人民币。
Lord Ashburton said Britain regretted that it had not made some explanation or apology for the sinking of an American boat in the Niagara River.
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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。
In almost every poem Walt Whitman wrote he seems to be fashioning himself, if not the whole of this American people, which sometimes he did call an American race, as a new Adam.
在沃尔特·惠特曼所写的的几乎每首诗中,他似乎都是在标榜自己,如果不是标榜美国人民的话,但他确实有时将美利坚民族,称为一个新的亚当
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