What do you see there when you think about the America they're giving us, all these figures? So, that's for your reading.
当看到他们呈现给我们的美国时你怎么看,所有这些人物,这是你们所要读到的。
which I don't know if you guys are familiar with. It's like a rural state in the middle of America,
我不知道你们对那里熟不熟悉。
这是在美国中部的一个以乡村为主的州。
This is a photo by another American photographer, Walker Evans, a photo of Brooklyn Bridge. You recognize it.
这是美国摄影家沃克埃文斯拍摄的一张照片,你们可以看出,是拍的布鲁克林大桥。
The great American railroads were built by and large, for decades, by government subsidies, and a tremendous amount of corruption.
这几十年间,美国伟大铁路建起来了,这当然是是通过政府的支助,以及伴随着数不清的行贿受贿
This is Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, which is a collaboration of an American man and a Korean woman who create online digital artworks.
这个是由,张海英重工业,制作的,这是一个美国人和,一个韩国女人一起合作的在线数字艺术的组合。
If we looked in 1950, this is the incidence of paralytic, or the worst form of poliomyelitis in the U.S.
让我们回首一九五零年,这表示的是在美国因脊髓灰质炎,所致瘫痪的发生率
What's happening right now in the United States - is that the economy is collapsing- maybe that's overstating it.
现如今在美国发生的是,经济正在崩溃-,也许这是夸大这件事。
I also think it's in the heart of being an American.
我还认为,这是做美国人的核心所在。
So this is, I think, a nice idealized version of American politics.
我觉得这是一个理想化的美国政治
Well, well Did you mean American troops or presence altogether?
这是指美国军队还是美国势力?
Well the fact is it could be hundreds of foods in the American food supply, and what's noteworthy about this particular list of ingredients, is that it's fifty-six entries long; fifty-six things in this particular food and we defined it as food.
实际上,答案可以是,几百种美国食品,值得注意的是,这张配料单,居然包含了五十六种配料,这种由五十六种物质构成的东西,而我们还将它定义为食品
Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.
现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠
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,
because that is a skill that they need to do when they are older, filling out forms and what did one actually look like to get a passport in USA.
因为这是他们将来,必需的技能,填写表格,以及在美国,如何取得护照。
You have a full monarchy in the sense that both-- we in America talk about the separation of church and state, that is a very rare and unusual thing in the history of the world.
他有一个完全政教合一的君主政权,在美国政教是分离的,这在世界历史上很少见
So they've only grown up with one American family. So that's a really, really big difference.
只有一个是美国家庭的孩子。所以这差别还是很大的。
This is Los Angeles. It's kind of the hub or Mecca for yoga in the States.
这是洛杉矶。这在美国简直是瑜伽的中心或者是圣地。
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。
Today it is the hope of many people both here and abroad That we might even overcome might even transcend the basic structure of regime politics altogether and organize our world around global norms of justice and international law.
这是现今许多人的期望,不论是在美国还是国际上,我们或许甚至能克服,并超越政体政治的基本架构,彻底地,以全球典范来组织我们的世界,透过司法与国际法。
That's the big negativity in United States. The United States is making a huge mistake
这恰恰是美国的消极面了。美国正在犯一个大错误。
But he wrote one of the most brilliant critiques of change, and what it can mean, any American ever wrote.
但他写了一部非常精彩的关于变革的评论,这是美国人所著同类作品中最出色的一部
I think it was because it was a unique moment in American higher education.
我觉得这是因为那时是,美国高等教育的特殊时期。
This is the stock market for the United States; it's the Standard & Poor Composite.
这是美国的股票市场,这是标准普尔综合指数
But this is a type with which Sal longs to merge.
但这是萨尔渴望融合进去的一类美国人。
Even such concepts, such great American concepts let's call it that--as self-reliance about which Ralph Waldo Emerson may have written his greatest essay I go read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" at least once a year.
这样的观念,伟大的美国式的观念,让我们称呼它为,自助,这是拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生写过的,最具影响力的作品,我每年至少读一次爱默生的《自助》
And it's Hawthorne's satire, It's apocalyptic, angry critique of all these Americans who think they're inventing everything anew every day.
这就是霍桑的讽刺作品,这是一篇启示录般的故事,是对这群自认为每天都发明新玩意儿的,美国人的愤怒谴责
And that will be the secret to American success, to their indivisual success and to their country's success.
这将是美国成功的秘密,他们个人成功的秘密,这个国家成功的秘密。
These are, in a sense, complementary images of the modern in America.
某种意义上来说,这是互补的对于现代美国的印象。
What this is is the price of a portfolio of shares in U.S. companies.
这是美国公司的股票投资组合的价格
So this city is not a city in New England, it's a city in the Midwest, where everything's flat and the roads just go completely straight.
所以这不是在新英格兰的城市,它是美国中西部的城市,那里都是平坦而笔直的路
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