美国人

They tell us of the Israelites in Egypt, the Helots in Sparta, and of the Roman Slaves, which last were made up from almost every nation under heaven, whose sufferings under those ancient and heathen nations, were, in comparison with ours, under this enlightened and Christian nation, no more than a cypher--or, in other words, those heathen nations of antiquity, had but little more among them than the name and form of slavery; while wretchedness and endless miseries were reserved, apparently in a phial, to be poured out upon our fathers, ourselves and our children, by Christian Americans....

他们在那些远古和野蛮的国度里受到的磨难，与我们在这开明的基督教国家所受到的相比，的确是微乎其微了──换句话说，那些远古的野蛮国家不过具有奴隶制的名称和形式而已；而虔信基督的美国人，却将不幸和无边的苦难加以浓缩而保存了下来，灌注到我们的先辈、我们自己和我们的后代身上去。。。。。。

Those Honkies that just got off the boat, they're already Americans; Polacks are already Americans; the Italian refugees are already Americans.

这些白鬼子正好下船时，他们就已经是美国人了；波兰人也已经是美国人；意大利难民也已经是美国人。

Sarah: Why are all of the main hot-shot movie stars American?

莎拉：为什么所有主要的大片影星都是美国人？

Nixon's original insight remains as true now as it was in the late 1960s: lots of liberals do, indeed, look down on flyover Americans as stump-toothed imbeciles and, for some strange reason, lots of flyover Americans resent them for it.

尼克松独创性的洞察力时至今日仍像60年代末一样犀利。许多自由党人确实看不起中部美国人，把他们看成低能耐，愚蠢的人。因此，许多中部美国人出于某种奇怪的理由，憎恨他们。

I'm an Irish-American, so I'm anti-royalist.

我是爱尔兰裔美国人，所以我是反保皇主义的。

I don't want to be African-American or Chinese-American or Irish-American.

我不想成为什么&非裔美国人&、&华裔美国人&或&爱尔兰裔美国人&。

John F. Kennedy (president 1961-1963) was an Irish-American who was born in Boston.

约翰-肯尼迪(1961-1963年任总统)就是出生于波士顿的爱尔兰裔美国人。

Although the American "moral baseline" is Judaeo-Christian, religion's sway in regulating American morals and behavior has been weakening.

很多人，包括某些美国人，把美国视为世俗的物质主义国家，就像把它看作是现代化国家那样。

The Justice Department's Inspector General has reported the FBI continues to illegally obtain personal information about Americans.

司法部监察长的报告，联邦调查局继续非法获取个人信息的美国人。

The Justice Department's Inspector General has reported the FBI continues to illegally obtain personal information about Americans.

司法部督察长报告说，联邦调查局继续非法获取个人信息的美国人。

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。