读了一本小说,又看了一部同名电影:《沉默的美国人》(The Quiet American),知道了成都的“趴耳朵”,北京的“黄包车”,还有其他地方叫的人力车都可以叫trishaw,呵呵,英文长进不少啊。
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批评家们称尼克松对美国人民冷漠而疏远,但他相信自己以一种神秘的方式与大多数美国人——沉默的美国人,美国中产阶级和美国中年人有联系。
His critics call him remote and heartless, but Nixon believes that he is linked in a mysterious way to the great America majority-the silent America, the middle America, and the middleaged.
因此,大家要反击这一针对干活的美国人的毫无必要的、不公平的以及粗暴的进攻,别再沉默了。
So let's beat back this unnecessary, unfair and - let's not mince words - cruel attack on working Americans.
不过19世纪美国的另一位外国游客Charles Dickens则认为,美国人才是沉默寡言。
But for Charles Dickens, another foreign visitor to America in the 19th century, it was the Americans who seemed taciturn.
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