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How do we have a conversation about what does it mean to be a well-rounded student at an American university today?
我们如何建立这样一个对话,就是在当今的美国大学中,如何才能成为一个全方位发展的学生？
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I mean it is still like a real big cultural mecca for African American people in New York City.
对于身在纽约的美国黑人来说，这里仍然是个真正的文化麦加圣地。
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In that passage that I read to you when they're in the mountains in Colorado drunk, yelling, they call themselves "mad, drunken Americans."
在那我读给你们听得段落中，当他们在科罗拉多的山上,酒醉并大叫，称自己是喝醉酒的美国疯子时“
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And sociologically in the 1960s and 1970s, in the United States, behaviorism was incredibly well known and so was Skinner.
在上世纪60到70年代之间的美国社会，行为主义极为盛行,斯金纳也得以名声大噪。
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They had common heroes and common customs and a certain common heritage of the American Revolution; make no mistake.
他们崇拜同样的英雄,有同样的习俗,还有享有一定同样的美国革命遗产,这点不要弄错
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What was the wonderful movie that had the Coen Brothers and all that great American folk music in it?
是哪一部经典的电影,由科恩兄弟执导的,那里面有众多美妙的美国乡村乐
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I managed to find price indexes for Norway and Netherlands going back to 1890 and compared that with the U.S.
我找到了挪威和荷兰1890年的,价格指数数据,和当时的美国作比较
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And I want my children and my nieces and my nephews and my students to be American and to be proud of it.
我想让我的孩子，我的侄女,侄子还有学生,做自豪的美国人。
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It's post-Christian in the sense that it's hard to live in America without having some kind of exposure to Christianity and without seeing its influence on our society,on our politics, on our culture and our art,and that sort of thing.
一方面，生活在后基督教的美国不可能,不接触到基督教文化,不可能忽视它对社会，政治，文化，艺术等方面的影响。
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So I would say we need to live into that dream of America.
所以我想说，我们应该拥有这样的美国梦。
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This is good, old-fashioned American wisdom.
这很好，旧式的美国智慧。
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Each of you, who is above 18 and is an American citizen, and was born in America above whatever it is, whatever the rule is, whatever the Constitution says), each of you can potentially stand up now and say you're going to run for president.
你们中每一个到了18岁的美国公民,并生在美国,大于不论几岁,不论规定是多少,不论宪法怎么规定,你们都可以站出来,参加总统竞选
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Whatever you think those are. Here, you might imagine different people disagreeing about-- oh, but throw in something--but if what you want to do is write the great American novel, then you've got the experience of staying up late at night not knowing how to make the plot work out, crushing pieces of paper and throwing them away.
你能想到的都在里面，可能有人不同意-,插入某某东西，比如你想,创作最伟大的美国小说，于是你获得熬夜的体验,纠结于如何构建情节，撕碎稿纸，扔在一边。
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In fact, I am the only, I'm the only person from America, out of everybody in the accounting Ph.D. program.
事实上，在所有会计博士生中，我是唯一的美国人。
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Because it represents foreigners investing in United States and that generates rates of return that effectively can generate that growth.
其实这和外国人在美国投资的道理是一样的,投资带来的收益，是由美国来埋单的,因而，实际上也同样导致了美国债务的增长。
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For example, the bar to the far left, the grains, shows that 24% of Americans are eating the recommended amount of grains.
比如,最左边一项,谷物摄入,这里显示24%的美国人谷物摄入达标
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How do you know that your parents, at least one of your parents satisfies the definition? Well I've reduced the problem from am I a natural born US citizen to is one of my parents a natural born US citizen?
这是一个递归的定义，你怎么知道你的父母,至少其中一个是满足天生的美国公民,这个定义的呢？,我已经把我是一个天生的美国公民这个问题？
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and I think that's one of, I guess, the biggest cultural clashes, especially with Americans going abroad,
我认为这是一种激烈的文化碰撞，特别是对出门在外的美国人，
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So what you have is you have maybe 20%, I think, 20% of the entire American population
所以我认为也就20%的美国人口
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back when America was first getting its feet and like, started to write its own literature.
那个时候的美国刚刚站稳脚跟准备创作自己的文学。
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I was only myself, Sal Paradise, sad, strolling in this violet dark, this unbearably sweet night wishing I could exchange worlds with the happy, true-hearted, ecstatic Negroes of America.
引-我只是我，萨尔·佩拉提斯，无精打采地徘徊在这个，温柔的难以忍受的夜晚，多希望自己能够变成,一个快乐，真诚，热情奔放的美国黑人。
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What America do we see? I'm going to look back to a passage I talked about in a different vein last time, on 26 and 27, just for one quick example.
看到什么了呢？，我们看到了什么样的美国？，我想回到,上一次讲另一个脉络时讲到的段落，在26到27页。
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You have a very, very changing demographic situation in the American South and its political culture has to respond to that.
你可以想象,当时的美国南方,人口流动是非常厉害的,所以当时的政治文化必须做出相应的调整
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that says that 67% of Americans do think that we listen to other countries when we make policy.
调查显示67%的美国人,认为我们听取了别国的意见,继而才制定政策。
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In this scene Big Slim Hazard is an American type, just as Mississippi Gene is himself.
这一幕中细杆哈查德是个典型的美国人，就和密西西比的吉恩他自己一样。
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And it starts off with just 1% for 90% of the US tax payers.
对于90%的美国纳税人来说。
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Crushing your computer, or whatever it is that you do as you write the great American novel.
砸碎电脑，随便你想怎样,当你创作最伟大的美国小说时。
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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
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Maybe they didn't write down the binomial distribution, but they explained the idea of insurance and it didn't sound right to the typical nineteenth century American woman.
也许他们并不会给客户写二项分布函数,但会向他们灌输保险的理念,但这看起来对19世纪的美国女性,并不奏效
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Musical notation is a particularly Western phenomenon and when you stop and think about it only we in the West, and by West what I mean is the United States and Canada and Western Europe and Russia, parts of South America, only we use musical notation and we use it principally for our high art music.
音乐记谱法是西方所特有的,你可以停下好好想想,只有我们这些土生土长的西方人,所谓西方,我指的是美国,加拿大,还有西欧和俄罗斯,包括一部分南美国家,只有我们使用音乐记谱法,并且我们把音乐记谱法应用于高雅音乐
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