Eartha Kitt said the First Lady asked her why she thought there was so much youth crime in America.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

So, first he makes America mythic, rather than specific , and then he enters into that mythology through acts of identification.

他是首先将美国赋予神话色彩，而不去将它具体化，然后他通过寻找自我认同感的行为进入了自己的神话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

back when America was first getting its feet and like, started to write its own literature.

那个时候的美国刚刚站稳脚跟准备创作自己的文学。

写作课程比较难 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But other groups, like the America First Committee, demanded that the United States stay out of another bloody European conflict.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

And what does it mean to be an American in this novel? So, that's the question I'd like to take up today first. Coming from Lolita, the vision of America in On the Road looks quite different.

这对于小说里你是一个美国人又意味着什么？,这是我今天想让你们思考的第一个问题，《洛丽塔》里，描写的美国景象非常不同于《在路上》之中的景象。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

President Obama is back from his first trip to Asia since becoming what he called "America's first Pacific president."

VOA: special.2009.11.21

The first is this era, of the 1820s, '30s, '40s and '50s, Antebellum America, exemplified most obviously by the anti-slavery movement, which is where we're going to get to as we leave today.

第一个时期,是十九世纪二十年代,三十年代,四十年代和五十年代,内战前的美国,废奴运动就是其典型,这是我们今天下课前要弄明白的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The ceremony was held at the place where a monument to America's first president, George Washington, was being built.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

My first book was on the trial of John Peter Zenger, 5 which was the first famous case in America in 1735 relating to freedom of speech.

我首本书写的就是John，Peter，Zenger审判，这个案例在1785年的美国家喻户晓5,是言论自由方面的第一个例子。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And I made it clear that by August thirty-first, two thousand ten, America's combat mission in Iraq would end.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

and they moved to America first, had my eldest sister.

然后他们搬去了美国，生下了我的大姐姐。

世界就是我的故乡 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He united the nation. And he took the first steps that destroyed the institution of slavery in America.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Sea Island cotton, the kind of cotton grown down there in the Georgia where it was first grown in North America in the Georgia, South Carolina islands, was a kind of long and silky kind of cotton.

乔治亚州,有种海岛棉,最初是生长于美国北部的,在佐治亚州的南卡罗来纳州岛上,最初有一种柔软光洁的棉花

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Secretary Clinton announced the trip in Jerusalem earlier this week during her first visit to the Middle East as America's top diplomat.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Now, just to give you a sense of how cold and calculated this business was, and how in many ways the first defense or justification of slavery in America is of course it certainly is by the late Antebellum Period it is an unabashed economic defense, as we'll see.

以上只是为了让你们体会到,这种交易是如何的冷酷而精明,以及战前后期第一次,美国奴隶制度的保卫与正名之战,不管怎么看,都毫无疑问,是一场赤裸裸的利益保卫战,正如我们所见

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But one of the first groups to support the administration was the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

And he was the first black director of the United States Information Agency which at the time supervised the Voice of America.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

SpongeBob won the hearts of children all over America during the first year of the cartoon series on the Nicklelodeon cable television network.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Now speaking of Washington and cherry trees, maybe you have heard the story about America's first president.

VOA: special.2010.02.23

Michele Obama celebrates her 45th birthday Saturday, just 3 days before she becomes America's First Lady.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Project official Carlos Zundt says the bus is the first of its kind in Latin America.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Yellowstone, in the western state of Wyoming, was not only the first national park in America.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

At first,the show traveled across North America and was meant to be the band's final tour.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

He started the first running club in America and wrote a book about jogging for fitness.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

The historians named America's first president, George Washington, as second on the list of greatest presidents.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

By February first,eighteen sixty-one, seven southern states had withdrawn from the United States of America.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

America's top diplomat,Hillary Clinton, made her first foreign trip as secretary of state this week.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Long ago, the people who settled in undeveloped areas in America first told tall tales.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Long ago,the people who settled in undeveloped areas in America first told tall tales.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.11.15