美洲人

One can draw two lessons: First, non-native speakers should use caution when speaking about ethnicity or race in English, as the English language is rife with linguistic traps in this area.

当人们可以说&黑人&和&白人&时，若有人建议说&红人&(指美洲印第安人--顺便说一句，他们被称为加拿大的&第一民族&)或者&黄人&，可是个坏主意。

A.D. 600 the Mayas undertook a massive migration which led this highly civilized people from Central America deep into the northern regions of South America.

公元600年，随着玛雅人从中美洲向北方的迁徙，也把他们的文明传播到了那里。

At first Native Americans were positive about the Europeans and were happy to have the many new things they brought, e.g. metal cooking pots, cloth and guns.

最初，美洲原住民对欧洲人很友好，对他们带来的许多新事物也很欢迎，例如金属锅、布料和枪。

Vermonters call themselves "woodchucks" because they've learned to hibernate under the weight of it instead of fighting from primacy, as newcomers do.

佛蒙特州人叫它们自己&美洲旱獭&因为它们有学问的去冬眠降低重量来代替好战从首位，就像新到来的移民做的。

Vermonters call themselves "woodchucks" because they've learned to hibernate under the weight of it instead of fighting from primacy, as newcomers do.

那里无止境的积雪堆起是那么的圣洁，依赖它独有的风光，佛蒙特州人说他们自己是&美洲旱獭&，因为他们学会冬眠来代替战斗放在首位，好像是新到来的移民。

The authors you have read so far were intimately involved in and writing about major historical events: migration from Europe, Puritan New England, war with Native Americans, the American Revolution, slavery, the shaping of a post-Revolutionary society.

你目前所读到的这些作者都亲身经历移民经过，并写下移民者的移民史，包括从欧洲移民、新英格兰的清教徒、和美洲原住民的战争、美国人的革命、奴隶制度、以及后革命社会的成形。

Their "golden age" lasted for 600 years, and besides inventing chocolate and the concept of "zero", the Maya built urban centers with great stone pyramids and developed the most brilliant civilization of pre-Hispanic America.

他们的&黄金岁月&历时600年之久；除了发明了巧克力和&零&的概念，玛雅人还打造了以宏伟巨石金字塔为布局的城市中心，并发展出西班牙统治前美洲最璀璨的文明。

The main business lines are the productions of hair weavings over 3,000,000 pieces annually in various styles, colors, Silky, Yaki and curls, wigs of over 50,000 pieces, The products are popular over 30 countries and districts in America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

全年生产各种规格、色号、式样的直发、曲发300多万条，全人发头套5万多顶，产品畅销美洲、欧洲、亚洲、非洲的30多个国家和地区。

Rutters that revealed the seaways to the New World or unraveled the mysteries of the Pass of Magellan and the Cape of Good Hope—both Portuguese discoveries—and thence the seaways to Asia were guarded as national treasures by the Portuguese and Spanish, and sought after with equal ferocity by their Dutch and English enemies.

那些记述了通往美洲新世界的海上通道的海图志，还有那些揭开葡萄牙人地理发现成果——麦哲伦通道及好望角神秘面纱的海图志，都是高度保密的资料。至于说详细记述通往亚洲海上路线的重要海图志，更是被葡萄牙和西班牙两国当作国家宝藏严格保护，作为对手的英国和荷兰则以同样狂热的劲头拼命想搞到手。

But even if all the possibles are counted in, a couple of hundred fatalities cannot compare with the 30,000 deaths caused in America each year by seasonal influenza.

但是，即便将所有可能死亡的人数叠加起来，也不过只会有几百人丧生。与美洲每年由季节性流感导致的30，000名死亡人数比起来，这简直不可比拟。

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。