That still leaves Afghanistan. On Wednesday,by a wide majority, the United States House of Representatives rejected a call for a quick withdrawal of American troops.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

Under that heading you might call "American Progress" came the sense of American mission: spreading liberty, spreading democracy, spreading Christianity.

在"美国式进步"的带领下,发展成为一种美国的使命,即推广自由民主,传播基督教思想

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Both had participated in what David Donald used to call the great American practice or custom, tradition actually he called it, of compromise.

他们都参与了,大卫·唐纳德曾经称为,那场伟大的美国实践或美国习俗,实际上他称之为传统,和解的传统

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Here is part of the poem. (READER) The current Poet Laureate,Kay Ryan, opened this year's National Poetry Month April first with a videoconference call to four American community colleges.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

But when their recommendations are so-so, when it's a judgment call, the subjects are significantly more likely to hire the white American than the African American.

但如果他们的推荐信不是很好，这时就需要主观判断，实验对象雇用白人的几率,就会远远高于黑人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And on the inner wall close to the courtyard actually what you see are some glittering tiles, thats what we call the luminary wall. Each lit rectangle tells about Chinese-American who has been important in American or world history.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

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》

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now my call to every Senator, as well as to every American,is this: We cannot be afraid of the future.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27

In almost every poem Walt Whitman wrote he seems to be fashioning himself, if not the whole of this American people, which sometimes he did call an American race, as a new Adam.

在沃尔特·惠特曼所写的的几乎每首诗中,他似乎都是在标榜自己,如果不是标榜美国人民的话,但他确实有时将美利坚民族,称为一个新的亚当

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"And to call this a program of torture is to libel the dedicated professionals who have saved American lives.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

The leaked report has prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to call on President Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder,to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate the allegations.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23