In fact you can find all over American culture in 1800,1810, even into the 1820s, a lot of fear of technology.
其实你能从所有的美国文化中发现,在1800到1810年,甚至在19世纪20年代,充斥着太多对新技术的恐惧
And I kind of tend to find American people really flaky
我总是能发现一些奇怪的美国人,
So, my danger when I came to what I called the "crossroads" of inheritance and this discovery was not a danger of Muslim extremism.
因而,当我遇到危险,即我所谓的,继承传统的十字路口和发现另一个美国时,这个危险并非穆斯林极端主义的危险。
This will probably come as a surprise to some of you that Aristotle discovered America but I will get to that in a minute.
这也许,对某些同学而言是个惊奇,亚里士多德竟然发现美国,但我马上就会加以解译。
to, "How does he find his identity as an American?"
他怎样发现作为一个美国人的自我身份?“
You better believe it's sixty to seventy percent, and the further back you go in American history the closer it is to ninety and ninety-five percent.
你最好猜百分之六七十,要是你以后有机会学习美国历史的话,你会发现它在百分之九十到九十五之间
So we started collecting cereals and things like that from various countries, and found in this preliminary study, that it was the case, the American foods were sweeter.
我们从全球各地,收集了一些麦片之类的样本,研究发现,情况确实如此,美国的食品相对要甜一些
You can find a whole- you can sort of find a deep and abiding kind of American nationalism still in a lot of these budding Southern patriots, even by the 1850s, especially when they get scared about what secession might actually mean.
你会发现,可以说你会发现一种深层持久的,美国民族主义仍旧根植于许多,南方爱国者们心中,甚至到十九世纪五十年代还是如此,特别是当他们开始害怕,脱离联邦会导致何种不可预料的结果
And if those people, if you're interested in that and I realize at this point I probably lost the interest of most Americans in the room, but for the non-Americans in the room, the people who are interested in the real world as I said before, I'll put that article online and that goes through all the gory detail of this.
如果你们对足球感兴趣的话,我发现,大多数美国的同学对此毫无兴趣,但是那些美国以外的同学,如果你们对现实中的足球比赛很感兴趣,就像我之前说的,我会把文章的详细内容发布到网站上
I talk about humility, which again, I think if you go through our history, ll see it has been a very important value.
我谈到谦逊,同样地,如果你纵观美国历史,会发现谦逊至关重要,you’
s very interesting if you go back and you read about al-Qaeda, one of the things that you read about is that Arabs, after World War Two saw the United States as standing for values of liberty and democracy and equality.
有一点很有趣,It’,如果你回头读读看看关于基地组织的报道,肯定不难发现,二战以后,阿拉伯人,将美国视为,自由,民主,平等的象征。
I want to talk today about Aristotle's discovery of America.
我今天想要谈,关于亚里士多德发现美国。
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