那么美国人对这样的灾难会如何反应呢？

So how would Americans react to such a disaster?

youdao

如果美国最大的快餐连锁店“麦当劳”的销量增加，那么美国人的腰围就不会像钱包一样瘪下去。

Waistlines won't thin along with wallets if sales figures at the nation's biggest fast-food chain are any indication.

youdao

如果你一天吃三顿饭，并且表现得像大多数美国人一样，那么有可能你每天至少三分之一的卡路里是在外面吃饭摄取的。

If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories outside the home.

youdao

If you're born in the United States you are by definition a natural born US citizen.

如果你出生在美国,那么你就是一个天生的美国人。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This helps us to explain, for instance, why in so many cultures the concept of saving face is so important, even if to most modern Americans it seems relatively trivial.

这就很容易解释，为什么很多文化里的面子问题,会变得那么重要，而对许多美国人来说,那都是小事一桩。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选