There are differences between British and American usage.

这几个词的用法在英美之间有所不同。

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American usage differs from English usage in certain ways.

美国用法在某些方面与英国用法不同。

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Yet we need not be readers of Ruskin to know that competition also has a pejorative sense, even in American usage.

然而，我们就是不读拉斯金的书也知道，竞争也是带有贬意的，哪怕是在美语的用法中也是这样。

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In contrast in the U.S. Facebook is approaching or surpassed American usage of search engines and other platforms like Amazon, Ebay, Craiglist.

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Suffice it to say when these states enacted trust statutes that were similar to the offshore statutes, some of those attorneys who had been drafting offshore trusts now started drafting domestic trusts for the same purposes, and thus the Protector provisions migrated into American usage.

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Of course, I had to see how my energy usage compared to the average American.

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