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。
What do you see there when you think about the America they're giving us, all these figures? So, that's for your reading.
当看到他们呈现给我们的美国时你怎么看,所有这些人物,这是你们所要读到的。
Same thing at Latin America when you look at Venezue and these of the other countries.
这和拉美情况相同,看看委内瑞拉和其他拉美国家。
We know the early example in sort of Golden Age America, but where else did we see a competitive fringe enter when there was a collusive agreement to keep quantities down?
我们知道美国全盛时期有这样的先例,还有什么行业原来也有产量协议,但新公司进入后却导致协议瓦解呢
Smoking is a key example, it took America decades to mobilize after the catastrophic consequences smoking were clear, but when it did, American tobacco companies exploited overseas markets, particularly in the developing world.
吸烟就是一个重要的例子,美国人在吸烟的灾难性后果,已经明确的几十年之后,才采取行动,但在行动时,美国烟草公司已经开拓了海外疆土,尤其在发展中国家
Sometimes when I am traveling in America, people have a difficulty understanding me.
有时候,当我在美国旅游的时候,人们要理解我,会有一点困难。
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?
In Democracy in America there's that famous passage, or passages, when Tocqueville crosses the Ohio River, from Ohio into Kentucky, from free soil into slave soil, free state into a slave state.
在托克维尔跨越俄亥俄河,从俄亥俄进入到肯塔基州,从自由之所走向奴役之地的那段游历中,为《美国民主》贡献了数段名言
Usually when a change happens in America, it takes years,
一般美国发生什么改变时,会用几年的时间,
And I say if you took a random sample of the Americans: "When you woke up in the middle of the night" and said: "What does the America stand for?"
我觉得如果给美国人做个抽样调查:,半夜醒来的时候“,被问到,美国人主张什么“
When north America and the EU work together.
如果北美和欧盟合作。
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