My family does not speak English, so my culture is more Honduran, you know,than it is American."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

To keep that conception in regard to decent race relations alive and growing has been the aspiration of generation after generation in many an American family, judging by my own and by those I know.

美国世世代代,都憧憬这一种理想,那就是保持,广博开放的胸襟，来正确面对种族问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

My whole family is. I'm first generation American, but from England.

我的家族里都是英国人。我是第一代美国人，但也是来自英国。

英国与美国的差异 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And I would suggest to you that the consumption of home is driven by a certain kind of desire as well, that desire to move up in the American class structure: "the first electric refrigerator in my family."

而我的看法是对家的消耗,也是由一种特定的渴望驱动的，这种渴望上升到美国的阶级结构：,“我们家的第一台电冰箱“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选