There's never been a successful third-party political culture take hold in this country without one really big issue to drive it.
美国就从没有过,第三政党真正成功执政的时候,因为缺乏一个真正重大的议题来支持它
and this I think only in the USA, New Orleans is the only other city that has cable cars.
并且在美国的其它城市中,除了新奥尔良市,没有第三个城市还有有线缆车了。
It wasn't immediately renewed -- because the United States got into a war that we call The War of 1812.
许可证并没有立即被更新,因为当时美国卷入了一场战争,被我们叫做1812年战争。
He said Americans would always build a house but then move before they put a roof on it.
他说,美国人盖房子,总是在还没有盖上屋顶时就搬走了
So the courses I took - -actually I took some English history obviously - I took no American history which would be the field I did in the PHD, but I took a lot of courses in philosophy, in literature.
所以我选了一些课程,当然我选修了英国历史-,但我没有学美国历史,因为那是我博士时的课程,但我选了很多哲学和文学方面的课程。
If you go back to the Declaration of Independence, it doesn't say: "We Americans believe these truths to be self-evident. " It says: "We believe these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and all men are entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happyness."
如果你回头再看看独立宣言,上面并没有说:,美国人相信,这些都是不言而喻的真理“,上面所说的是,我们相信这些真理不言而喻,从而,人人平等,所有人都拥有,人身自由,都有追求幸福的权利“
And just to give you some small defense of that approach, I always like to ask students, "Suppose we didn't have a single historical record, no newspaper, no diaries. You know nothing totally reliable for what happened in the latter part of the eighteenth century in America."
我可以给你们一个反驳的理由,我总是问学生们,"如果没有历史文献,报纸和日记,那么对于美国十八世纪后期的历史,你们将一无所知"
I was like, "it's a castle from 1400." I was like, "America wasn't even built by 1400."
我想说“建于1400年的城堡。那时都还没有美国呢。”
People living in Darfur are certainly less happy than people living in Denmark or the United States.
生活在达尔福尔的人,肯定没有生活在丹麦或美国的人快乐。
All right, so it might be that again, the problem with enforcement, although actually in 1880 America, it's not clear that they couldn't have enforced that contract.
好的,但是我刚才说了强制性的问题,虽然说那是1880年的美国,当时这种合同是否违法没有明确的界定
If that doesn't happen, there are always, you know, there's like, a Teach For America.
如果没有好转,我们可以参加美国教育计划。
The United States is not in a very powerful position anymore,
美国没有那么强大了,
Why is cancer one of the leading killers in the U. S. now but wasn't even on the charts in 1665?
为什么癌症现在是美国人的头号杀手,却甚至没有在一六六五年的名单中出现
She had dedicated herself weeks ago to making sense of what Inverarity had left behind, never suspecting that the legacy was America.
她前几周一直致力于,弄清Inverarity留下了什么,从来没有怀疑过,那遗产就是美国。
The big American banks are not functioning.
大型的美国银行并没有起作用。
But my guess is there're American Jews who have never met a Palestinian.
但我猜很多美国犹太人,从来没有见过巴勒斯坦人。
Traditionally, financial inventions were not granted patent rights, but now in the United States and in a number of other countries it has become possible to patent financial inventions.
传统的金融产品,是没有专利的,但现在,在美国,和其他的一些国家中,金融产品也拥有了专利
The only thing worth more than the slaves in the American economy of the 1850s was the land itself, and no one can really put a dollar value on all of the land of North America.
十九世纪五十年代的美国经济中,唯一价值超过奴隶的就是土地,而且没有人能够真正对,美国北部的土地进行估值
So then it's not broader in the US than it is in the UK.
也就是说那时美国的言论没有英国自由。
So, people in the U.S. don't have the optimal portfolio either.
美国同样也没有拥有最佳投资组合。
It's something that permeates the portfolio and, I think, provides really interesting investment opportunities because a lot of the foreign markets are less efficiently priced than those that you find in the U.S.
渗入了整个投资组合,并提供了很有吸引力的盈利机会,因为很多国外市场,没有美国国内市场程度的有效定价
Other countries had set up central banks following on the Bank of England but the U.S. didn't set up a central bank; it set up a system of twelve banks and they were regional.
其他国家依照英格兰银行,建立了自己的中央银行,但是美国没有设立自己的中央银行;,美国建立了十二个银行的系统,并且这些银行是区域性的。
The thing about corporate America--few people that go to college, like where you are now, and most people in America don't realize how poorly most of our companies are run in this country, with many exceptions.
美国企业的问题是--没有什么人,上过大学,没人去过像你们现在所在的地方,很多在美国的人怀揣着对美国企业的希望,并没有意识到大多数我们的企业,经营的有多糟糕。
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