我不是在要求人们学习英语或采用美国的方式；这些事情几乎都是自发的。
I am not talking about requiring people to learn English or to adopt American ways; those things happen pretty much on their own.
美国文化和美式英语已成为流行。
六年前我们全家搬到美国时，我们谁也不会说英语。
When our family moved to the United States six years ago, none of us spoke any English.
你知道吗：李在美国呆了近十年，说起英语来依然有那么浓重的口音。
Did you know this: after almost ten years in the United States, Li still speaks English with such a strong accent.
你知道吗：李在美国呆了近十年，说起英语来依然有那么浓重的口音。
Did you know this: after almost ten years in the United States, Li still speaks English with such a strong accent.
现在我在美国，大多数时候，我会用英语思考，然后直接说出来。这太有帮助了，真是神奇。
Now I'm in America, and for most of the time, I would think in English and speak it directly. It's amazing how much this helps.
我想尖叫，想跳到椅子上大喊：“我是美国公民；我是一名小说家；我大概可以教你的孩子英语文学。”
I wanted to scream, to jump on a chair and shout: "I'm an American citizen; a novelist; I probably teach English literature to your children."
因为美国大学里发生了一些奇妙的事情，而哈佛大学英语教授路易斯·梅南很巧妙地捕捉到了这一点。
For something curious has been happening in American universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.
这些学科正在衰落：现在22%的美国大学毕业生主修商科，相比之下，主修历史的只有2%，主修英语的只有4%。
These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English.
在美国旅行的时候，我试着和不会说中文的朋友出去玩，这样我就只能说英语了。
While traveling in America, I'd try to hang out with friends who couldn't speak Chinese, so that I'd have no choice but to speak English.
卡罗莱纳医院指出，因为主要用英语写作，古巴裔美国作家被排除在关于古巴流亡文学的选集和分析之外。
Carolina Hospital notes that Cuban-American writers who write primarily in English are dismissed from anthologies and analyses of Cuban exile literature on that account.
根据一项调查，四分之一的美国年轻人愿意学习英语。
According to a survey, one in four American young men would like to learn it.
其一，这是一个令人兴奋的、潜在利润丰厚的新行业，植根于美国，所以如果你想参与其中，你必须会说一些英语。
One was that it was an exciting, potentially lucrative new industry that had its roots in the U.S., so if you wanted to get in on it, you had to speak some English.
美国英语与英国英语有很大差异。
American English is significantly different from British English.
如你所知，我计划今年夏天去美国，但是我对我的英语水平有点担忧。
You know I'm planning to go to the United States this coming summer, but I'm a bit nervous about my English.
来自美国、英国、澳大利亚和南非的说英语的人都有不同的口音。
English speakers from the US, the UK, Australia, and South Africa all have different accents.
美国人不再指望公众人物都有掌握英语的技巧和天赋，无论是在演讲还是写作方面。
Americans no longer expect public figures, whether in speech or in writing, to command the English language with skill and gift.
尽管许多年后美国人脱离了他们的殖民地主人，但英语保留了，而且仍然存在。
Although many years later the Americans broke away from their colonial master, the language of English remained, and still does.
他决定学习一些英语单词，这样他就可以用英语问候美国总统比尔·克林顿。
He decided to learn some English words so that he might greet Bill Clinton, president of the USA then, in English.
许多人来参加英语角，包括一些来自英国和美国说英语的人。
Many people come to the English corner, including some English speakers from the UK and the US.
美国作家赛珍珠将其翻译成英语。
从韩国到日本再到美国，学校将说英语的机器人呈现在学生面前。
From Korea to Japan to the United States, schools are putting English speaking robots in front of their students.
他是一位老师，对英语进行了革新，从而增强了美国人的身份认同。
He was a teacher who reformed English to make American identity stronger.
在作者看来，外国人是提高你英语口语的“机会”；每当你见到外国人，不论美国人还是英国人，你应该和他或她练习说英语。
In the writer's opinion, foreigners are an "opportunity" to improve your oral English; whenever you see a foreigner, American or English, you should practise speaking English with him or her.
她的母亲是墨西哥人，父亲是美国人，因此她既会说西班牙语，又会说英语。
Her mother is Mexican and her father is American, so she can speak both Spanish and English.
这是一个美国人只身前往陌生土地的故事，这也是他途中遇到的人的故事：他的翻译鲁斯塔姆，一个可爱的24岁年轻人，在加利福尼亚学会了有趣的英语；奥列格和娜塔莎，他在塔什干的借宿人家；以及许多外国救援人员。
It is the story of an American travelling to a strange land, and of the people he meets on his way: Rustam, his translator, a lovely 24-year-old who picked up his colorful English in California, Oleg and Natasha, his hosts in Tashkent, and a string of foreign aid workers.
有些美国单词在英国英语中没有对应词。
想想新西兰，苏格兰和美国版英语。
Think New Zealand, Scottish and American versions of English.
现在，特别英语课程的美国故事。
美国英语把钞票叫Bill。
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