Today,a character on the American television series, The Simpsons, says it another way.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

American voters often vote based on character rather than position.

美国选民经常根据候选人的性格,而非政治立场来投票

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That, he says, has been our history and what it should say, what it doesn't quite say I think, is that it has been this history not because it is American but because it is a republic, because of its regime type, its regime character.

的共和国，他说，那已经成为了我们的历史,它应该被说成，我认为言下之意是,它已经成为这种历史并非因为它是美国人的,而是因为它是个共和国，因为,它的政权类型，它的政权性质。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The title character is a gunfighter in the American Old West.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

One of the most famous, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, who in his famous fictional letters, Letters from an American Farmer, he invented a character, if you've ever read that great text, called Farmer James.

其中最著名的一位是,J·赫克托·圣约翰·克雷夫科尔,在他的著作,《一个美国农民的信》中,他创造了一个形象,如果你读过这本书,农夫詹姆士

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The main character, played by best actress nominee Gabourey Sidibe, is a troubled and overweight African American teenager.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

It was something that was always on my mind." American actor Stanley Tucci co-stars as the murderer: a mundane character almost invisible to his neighbors.

VOA: standard.2010.01.08