美国

By leaving both America and the best basketball league in the world, you would alienate half of U.S.

趋势2：离开了美国和这个世界上最好的篮球联盟，你会疏远一半的美国篮球球迷。

According to an article in the New York Times, there are as many as 80,000 potential terrorist targets in the US listed by the Department of Homeland Security, including the wonderfully alliterative Weeki Wachee Springs water park in Florida.

根据《纽约时报》的一篇文章，美国国土安全部(Department of Homeland Security)列出了美国多达8万处的潜在恐怖袭击目标，其中甚至包括佛罗里达州的Weeki Wachee Springs矿泉公园。

The violent row in Britain over Iraq's non-existent weaponry is an obvious exception. America gets more worked up about political obfuscation, perhaps because it has less restraining notions of courtesy, maybe out of a residual Puritan idea of the sanctity of language: books with alliterative titles such as "Lies and the Lying Liars" etc are current-affairs staples; rival candidates routinely accuse one another of dishonesty.

在英国关于伊拉克并不存在的武器设施的激烈争吵是明显的例外）在美国，人们对于政治性方面的混淆是非则显得更加义愤填膺，可能因为美国人不那么注重礼节，这大概源自于清教徒对于语言神圣性的理念：名称押头韵的的书，诸如"假话和骗子"等等，是通用的主流。

But then, due to the future, under the structure of the UN, America, Russia and China and other countries can deter this kind of alogical accident happen. It's also a good chance to America as a great country.

不过，也正是出于对这种前景的担心，适合在联合国框架内由美国、俄国、中国和其他国家联手来制止这种非理性事件的发生，尤其对美国与作为"负责任的大国"来说，这确实是一个绝好的表现机会。

All of this information is well documented by the AMA, American Lung and Heart Associations, and the American Cancer Society.

所有这些信息都是有案可稽的，由反垄断，美国肺脏和心脏协会，美国癌症学会。

Mila has written several times about the Amana Colony in the Midwest.

Mila已经写及过位于美国中西部的Amana聚集地好几次（Amana Colony，译注：是在1855年到1930年代位于美国爱荷华州、由德国人根据农业社区理想创办的聚集地。

The occasional dose of candid rhetoric from Washington's current ambassador to Jakarta, Robert Gelbard, has prompted howls of outrage from Indonesian politicians, regular protests outside the American embassy, and a nickname for Gelbard as "Ambo the Rambo."

美国的现任驻雅加达大使Robert Gelbard不时发表了一些花哨的言论，已经引起了印尼政治界的愤怒和不满，美国使馆外经常有示威活动，Gelbard还被取了个诨号"Ambo the Rambo。"

The company he founded, America Online, was one of thenation's most admired.

他所创立的美国在线是美国最受尊敬的公司之一。

In 1955,the American Federation of Labor joined with Congress of Industrial Organizations.

在1955年，美国劳工联合会与美国产业工会联合会合并。

In nineteen fifty-five, the American Federation of Labor joined with the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

50到60年代，是美国工会的影响力最大的时期。1955年，美国劳工联盟加入工业组织协会合并。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。