Well, I think the pressing example in the United States right now has to do with people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered.
恩,我觉得,就当前美国的情况来说,最能说明问题的例子就是,同性恋,双性恋,以及变性人。
and this I think only in the USA, New Orleans is the only other city that has cable cars.
并且在美国的其它城市中,除了新奥尔良市,没有第三个城市还有有线缆车了。
Remember, when I asked you about the specificity of America in On the Road, and I asked you to think about whether there was anything there at all?
记得当我问你们在《在路上》中关于美国的特性,还有在那里到底有没有什么东西,在《在路上》中?
Aristotle could never endorse the view stated by a famous American president that the business of America is business.
亚里士多德从未认可,那种由一位著名美国总统所说的主张,即美国的本分就是交易。
But just to make it concrete and to see what's at stake, consider the distribution of wealth in the United States.
但为了更形象,看看问题何在,以美国的财富分配状况为例。
The U.S. Is actually an important country for regulation because it has been a model for much of the regulations around the world.
在监管方面,美国确实是一个重要的国家,美国的监管制度已成为各国的模板
Tocqueville couldn't resist it, it was the thing he couldn't stop writing about in Democracy in America, and he was only observing in 1831.
托克维尔抗拒不了,这使他情不自禁的写下,《美国的民主》这部著作,他仅了解1831年的美国
Now, I'm talking about 1900 America where has that happened in the twentieth century more dramatically?
刚才我说的就是在二十世纪,美国的哪些行业发生了巨大的变革
In contrast, if you look at a U.S.City, ten years ago in 1997 for example, then people still died but they didn't die predominantly from infectious diseases.
相反,我们看美国的城市,例如在十年前,即一九九七年,人们还是会死亡,但是最主要的死因不再是感染性疾病
There are other factors involved too like high energy prices, but certainly U.S. policy is affecting that, but we're also affected by the rest of the world.
还有诸如能源价格高昂等其它因素,但美国的政策肯定是有影响,但世界其它地区的情况也影响了我们
And then the American linguist would say, "Yeah. We speak to our dogs."
然后这些美国的语言学家会说,"是啊,我们会和我们的狗说话"
The plane crashes exactly on the border of Canada and the United States.
飞机刚好,在加拿大和美国的边界上坠毁
And that may generalize again and it keeps going until you either get back to Adam and Eve, I guess. I don't think they were born in the US as far as I know, or you find somebody who satisfies that definition or you find that none of your parents actually are in that category.
降低到我的父亲或者母亲,是不是天生的美国公民呢,这个问题可以继续向下分解,你甚至可以追溯到亚当和夏娃的时候,据我所知它们并不是出生在美国的,或者你要么找到一个符合定义的人,要么发现你的父母都不满足条件。
In America or in other places as well?
讲述了美国的奴隶宗教,也讲到其他地方了吗?
The MRIs per capita is about half of that of United States, in Britain, which also has a government health program, there is only about a fourth in the United States.
加拿大核磁共振医疗设备,的人均使用量,只有美国的一半,在英国,也有一个政府医疗体系,只有美国的四分之一资金。
Well, I am from Spain, so I knew I wanted to come to the U.S. because of the system.
嗯,我是西班牙人,所以我知道我想到美国,因为美国的教育体系。
If you go to any coffee store in America and you ask them, "How many cappuccinos did you sell today?"
如果你去美国的任何咖啡店,你问他们,“你们今天卖出多少杯卡布奇诺?“
This was a time when Hopkins led all American universities in the importing of important European scholars, and it was a place of remarkable intellectual ferment.
当时霍普金斯先于美国的其他大学,邀请重要的欧洲学者来讲学,那里也是有影响的思想动乱的源地。
One is Dubna in the former Soviet Union in Russia, one is in Darmstadt in Germany and the third one is in the United States in Berkeley.
一个是在杜布纳,位于前苏联的俄国,一个在德国的达姆施塔特,第三个是在美国的伯克利。
People living in Darfur are certainly less happy than people living in Denmark or the United States.
生活在达尔福尔的人,肯定没有生活在丹麦或美国的人快乐。
These are, in a sense, complementary images of the modern in America.
某种意义上来说,这是互补的对于现代美国的印象。
When he's back in New York--this is on page 125 his New York friends meet his road friends, and are delighted by them.
当他回到美国,在125页上5,他的美国朋友见到他的旅途伙伴,被他们逗的很开心。
Because it represents foreigners investing in United States and that generates rates of return that effectively can generate that growth.
其实这和外国人在美国投资的道理是一样的,投资带来的收益,是由美国来埋单的,因而,实际上也同样导致了美国债务的增长。
Christian Awuku-Budu is from Ghana, Accra, but he, again, went to college in the United States at Morehouse College.
克里斯蒂安·阿武库布都来自加纳的阿克拉,但他的大学学业,是在美国的莫尔豪斯学院完成的
In the next twenty-five years the increased--the anticipated increase in diabetes is supposed to be about 37% in the U.S.
在未来的二十五年中,预计美国的糖尿病患者的人数,将增加37%
And it's Hawthorne's satire, It's apocalyptic, angry critique of all these Americans who think they're inventing everything anew every day.
这就是霍桑的讽刺作品,这是一篇启示录般的故事,是对这群自认为每天都发明新玩意儿的,美国人的愤怒谴责
Think of the Bill of Rights here in the United States; think of the French Declaration on the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
想想美国的《人权法案》,想想法国的,《人权宣言》
Those kinds of desires are connected also with that American habit of consumption.
这些渴望也是与美国的,消费习惯相关的。
So Aristotle was not without his own critique of the American constitution and American political culture.
所以,亚里士多德,也评论了美国宪法,及美国的政治文化。
How do you know that your parents, at least one of your parents satisfies the definition? Well I've reduced the problem from am I a natural born US citizen to is one of my parents a natural born US citizen?
这是一个递归的定义,你怎么知道你的父母,至少其中一个是满足天生的美国公民,这个定义的呢?,我已经把我是一个天生的美国公民这个问题?
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