The quality and safety of Soviet-built nuclear reactors is a subject thatwill soon be close to home for some Americans.
对部分美国人来说,苏联所兴建电站的质量和安全会很快成为他们切身相关的问题。
At some point in their lives, for any number of reasons, nearly all Americans will have difficulties sleeping and suffer from acute insomnia.
在他们生活的某个时候,由于各种原因,几乎所有的美国人都有睡眠困难和急性失眠的问题。
While there, they meet with potential vendors and importers, locate Western-style kitchen equipment and, in some cases, plan how to procure items that Americans may take for granted.
在那里,他们与潜在的卖主和进口商会面,定位西方风格的厨房设备。并且,在某些情况下,计划怎样去获得那些美国人可能看重的信息。
Although we live in the land of plenty - and for the most part overeat - there are some critical vitamins that Americans tend to be short on, especially women.
尽管我们生活富裕——大部分地区的人吃得过饱——但是美国人还是缺乏一些重要的维生素,尤其是女性。
Many Americans say they'll return to spending once things improve, and already some investors appear to have regained their taste for risk.
许多美国人说,一旦情况好转,他们会恢复开支,而一些投资者已经显示出恢复了风险偏好。
It's official: After centuries of trying to sanitize and sterilize bacteria off the face of the planet, Americans have embraced the notion that some microbes might actually be good for us.
官方表示:虽然美国人一直以来尝试着各种消毒的方法杀灭生活中所遇到的各种细菌,但是他们也渐渐接受了一些微生物有益于身心的看法。
The order led to the internment of Japanese Americans or AJAs (Americans of Japanese Ancestry) in which some 120, 000 ethnic Japanese people were held in internment camps for the duration of the war.
这项命令使得美籍人日本人或者祖上有日本血缘的美国人中,大约120000种族意义上的日本人在收容所被迫待到了战争结束。
Indeed, some 70 percent of African-Americans voted yes on California's Prop 8, and exit polls found similar levels of opposition among blacks for a marriage initiative in Florida that same year.
确实,大约百分之七十的非裔美国人投票赞同加州的八号提案,民意调查还发现,在同一年佛罗里达州差不多也有同样水平的黑人反对同性婚烟。
There are some unfair ways in which rich Americans have rewarded themselves, from backdated share options to reserved places at universities for the offspring of alumni.
现在富人奖励自己的一些方法不太公平,比í卩,他们可以优先购买股票,并且股票的实际生效日期早于公布日期;他们还可为校友的孩子预留大学里的位置。
While the new iPhone has been greatly admired and widely touted for its impressive voice and data communication capabilities, some Americans remain skeptical.
尽管新款的iPhone已被广泛追捧和称赞了它出色的语音和数据通信能力,但部分美国人仍对它持怀疑态度。
Americans, too, like a good gas, racking up 835 minutes (though some of these are incoming minutes, which are paid for by the subscriber).
美国也同样健谈,每月平均通话达到835分钟(尽管其中一些是对方付费的来电通话)。
For the study, the five professors surveyed some 4, 000 Americans, asking what they did the previous day and then quizzing them in detail about three randomly selected events from the day.
这五位教授在研究中调查了约4,000名美国人,询问他们前一天做了什么,然后就其中随机选取的三件事询问详情。
Some take their lives: The suicide rate for Americans over 65 is second only to the rate for adolescents, and for white men over 65 it’s more than four times the national average.
有些人会自杀:美国65岁以上的自杀率仅仅排在青年人自杀率的第二位,对于白人来说65岁以上是国家平均年龄的四倍以上。
Of course, most Americans have known for some time that sun-tanning is dangerous business.
当然,大多数美国人知道晒黑是件危险的事已有一段时间了。
Housing market could continue weak for some years, not months, affecting millions of ordinary Americans.
房市可能持续疲弱个几年,并非几个月,影响到数百万计的普通美国人民。
To Europeans, it looks as if some Americans' main motive is personal: to punish Mr Melkert for betraying Mr Wolfowitz.
在欧洲人看说,某些美国人的动机似乎主要是针对个人,即为了惩罚梅尔科特出卖沃尔福威茨。
Americans may, therefore, have just cause for some concern about their bond markets.
美国人因此有理由担心他们的债券市场。
Prominent Americans with good lawyers may gain some relief, but for news outlets in poor countries it is likely to make little difference.
有好律师的出色的美国人能松一口气了,但对穷国的新闻媒体来说,可能没多大差别。
Senior Americans say cross-border liaison has improved, particularly in the east (for example along the border with Kunar province), but some Afghans in high positions think this is a sham.
美军高层表示,跨边境联络已有所增强,尤其是在东部地区(比如沿着库纳尔的边境),但是一些阿富汗高官认为这种说法有悖事实。
This happened because, for all our problems, most Americans had some kind of coverage, liked their doctors and hospitals, and knew we had a good system of health-care delivery.
发生这种情况的原因在于,尽管存在很多问题,但大部分美国人都有某种形式的医保涵盖范围,他们喜欢自己的医生和医院,他们知道我们有一个不错的医疗保健服务体系。
And I think there is a strong mandate for Washington as a whole to be responsive to ordinary Americans in a way that it has not been for quite some time.
我认为,华盛顿,做为一个整体,应当以消失了很长时间的强烈的使命感对普通美国人负责。
Over the past months, there has been some progress in getting Americans to accept the need for self-restraint.
在过去的几个月里,美国人在自我约束方面渐渐取得成效。
Over the past months, there has been some progress in getting Americans to accept the need for self-restraint.
在过去的几个月里,美国人在自我约束方面渐渐取得成效。
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