Some Americans had trouble understanding the economic reason why food had to be destroyed so people could have enough to eat.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

Hence, some of the characters in books through whom you had glimpsed life's possibilities were fellow Americans of yours.

所以你要借助,书中的东西和角色,来表达生活的可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And then Woodward argued quite directly that the loss of the Vietnam War began to liberate the South, in a sense that the South, Southerners, white Southerners, were the only Americans other than we always forget Native Americans who had ever lost a war.

接着沃德沃直截了当地说,越南战争的损失开始导致南方的解放,因为从某种程度上说,南方人,南方白种人,是美国唯一除了印第安人之外,我们总忽略这些北美原住民,输掉过战争的人

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African Americans had gained worldwide fame for their work in popular music -- especially for creating jazz.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Forty years earlier, a group of leading Americans had formed an organization for that purpose.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

He said Americans had blamed Britain for forcing African slavery on the colonists.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Americans had already accepted Jefferson's word and started to use it.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

Americans had been trading with China for years, but not heavily.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

He said Americans had nothing like that in this country.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Britain was also angry because Americans had helped Canadian rebels.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Many Americans had no jobs and not much hope.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

Americans had high hopes for their new president.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

By then Americans had elected a new president.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Some paintings show how Americans had fun.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

It seems hard to believe that it had been 62 years since the Americans had won Olympic gold in the four-man bobsled.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

"As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Cesar Chavez had built a nationwide coalition of support among unions, church groups,students, minorities and other Americans.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

Earlier,Mexico had agreed to pay more than two million dollars for damages claimed by Americans.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Most Americans,however, believed that the good times had come to stay.

VOA: special.2010.12.23

Americans who had money were afraid to invest it.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Americans have never had national education standards.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

She says 15 days after he disappeared, she heard on the radio that her son had been captured by the Americans as a suspected pirate.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

But the increase in obesity has had a disproportionate impact on Americans' health and longevity.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"They had something to prove and they proved it," "They proved they were good Americans."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Goolsbee says recent indicators showing improvement in some sectors of the U.S.economy are encouraging Americans who had stopped looking for work to re-enter the job market.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

In one year,that number would double. The auto industry was failing, banks had become reluctant to lend and Americans were losing their homes in record numbers.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

Addressing media in the White House Rose Garden, the president said Republicans who had for years supported policies that turned big surpluses into deficits had no place blocking aid for Americans desperately searching for work.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

The strategy includes an effort to draw attention to recent rate increases imposed on Americans by major health insurance companies, and the impact this has had on people the president has heard from directly in letters he reads each day.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10