Few Americans have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie's generosity.
安德鲁·卡内基的慷慨大度几乎感染了每一个美国人。
There are few Americans who have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie's generosity.
安德鲁·卡内基的慷慨大度几乎影响到所有美国人。
A decade ago, few Americans ate tilapia.
十年以前，美国人很少吃罗非鱼。
Few Americans understand what caused the recession.
美国人不能理解此次衰退的原因。
The few Americans and Germans seemed just as inhibited as I was.
几个美国人和德国人看上去也和我一样有点不自在。
Few Americans are likely to see durian or bamboo shoots in their local shop.
很少有美国人能在当地商店里看见榴莲或者是竹笋。
I see a few Americans, "she said." Of course I'm talking about the seat fillers.
我看到一些美国人，“她说，”当然我提到的是那些座位填充者。
But too few Americans are on a first-name basis with edible plants, studies show.
研究表明，但很少有美国人食用水果与蔬菜，可以直呼其名。
Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle.
很少有美国人将这一巨变单纯归因于美元贬值或商业周期循环这些显而易见的原因。
In the last few years, China has become a major power in the world but still few Americans know what real China is like.
在过去的几年里，中国已经成为一个世界强国，但是大多数美国人仍然不了解真正的中国。
The frustrating truth is that relatively few Americans care about the scientific missions that came after Apollo's giant leaps for mankind.
令人沮丧的的现实是，相对很少有美国人关心阿波罗为人类作为巨大跨越后的科学使命。
Despite the widespread carving that goes on in this country every autumn, few Americans really know why or when the Jack-o'-lantern tradition began.
尽管每到秋天，美国的刻南瓜活动是非常普遍，但是很少会有美国人知道为什么会有“杰克灯”的传统，以及这个传统是何时开始的。
Many Chinese people like to eat lunch, food, and very few Americans eat at noon; the Chinese people rarely eat dinner, and Americans eat a full meal at night.
中国人午餐喜欢吃很多食物，而美国人中午吃的很少；中国人晚餐吃的很少，而美国人晚上吃的很丰盛。
The stock itself has vacillated around the $15 mark for the last three years. A lot of the value is tied up in Asian assets that few Americans know anything about.
过去3年中，雅虎股票围绕着15美元上下摇摆，其中大部分价值都投到了亚洲资产中，而美国人对其亚洲资产知之甚少。
Few Americans, she says, are aware that the roofs of 35m homes may be insulated with material containing asbestos (which is linked to a cancer called mesothelioma).
她说，很少有美国人知道三千五百万所房子的房顶铺隔热材料还有石棉(石棉与间皮瘤有关联)。
However, few Americans can say the word rabbit without thinking of the clever cartoon character Bugs Bunny. Also, rabbits are known in the West as being extremely reproductive.
然而，在想到卡通人物疯狂的兔子之前，美国人很少说兔子这个词。
Despite the fact that few Americans self-claim to be puritans as their fore-fathers did before, the deeply-rooted Puritanism can never be neglected even in their daily behavior.
虽然很少有美国人像父辈一样自诩为清教徒，但是即使在他们的日常行为中，清教传统依然根深蒂固，不可忽视。
Few Americans, even those from the younger, Internet generation, seem to understand how easily their clicks and text messages can be detected, and how little privacy any of us have anymore.
人们在互联网上发送的信息或邮件很容易会泄漏给他人，在美国似乎很少有人---甚至包括生活在互联网时代的年轻人---能够真正意识到这一点，似乎也很少有人知道在互联网时代我们任何人早已几乎没有隐私可言。
For years, financial advisers have made at least token efforts to tell clients to save for medical costs, but few Americans budgeted them into their life plans beyond their needs in retirement.
多年来，理财顾问们从未停止劝说客户为医疗费用存钱，但极少有美国人会把这部分积蓄放在退休以前的生命期间里考虑。
Americans redecorate their houses and offices every few years.
美国人每隔几年就把自己的房子和办公室装修一次。
Bernard Bailyn argues, however, that the "Americans" who encroached on Native American land during the Revolution had been British only a few years before.
然而，伯纳德·贝林认为，在大革命期间侵占美洲原住民土地的“美国人”几年前还是英国人。
No matter that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by a privileged few in a time of rampant starvation and the suppression of Native Americans—Hale wanted her Thanksgiving.
尽管第一个感恩节是在饥饿肆虐、美洲印第安人遭受镇压的时期，由少数特权群体庆祝的，但黑尔还是想要过她自己的感恩节。
Unlike Americans of our day, however, few in the Roman Republic felt their system should be, or could be, embraced by others in the mysterious ancient societies of the East.
然而，不同于今天的美国人的是，在罗马共和国几乎没有人认为他们的系统应该，或者可能被神秘古老的东方社会文明所接受。
Such a change is all the harder for Americans to accept because few think it is either necessary or desirable-especially in relation to China.
这种变化是美国人非常难以接受的，因为很少有人认为有必要或值得——特别是在同中国的关系上。
Fashion became one of the few outlets for Asian-Americans who wanted to put their name out there.
时尚业成为那些想要出名的亚裔人的少数出路之一。
Statisticians can easily generate "lie coefficients" to adjust for the human tendency to fib away a few pounds. My guess is that for Americans it would be about 15% on average.
数据统计可以容易地算出“谎言系数”，用来调整人们给自己往轻了说几磅的倾向：我猜想美国人通常会少说15%实际的体重。
Statisticians can easily generate "lie coefficients" to adjust for the human tendency to fib away a few pounds. My guess is that for Americans it would be about 15% on average.
数据统计可以容易地算出“谎言系数”，用来调整人们给自己往轻了说几磅的倾向：我猜想美国人通常会少说15%实际的体重。
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