1·I'm not American, I'm Canadian.
我不是美国人,我是加拿大人。
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2·He put on an American accent.
他假操着一口美国腔。
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3·The American flag was flying.
美国国旗飘扬。
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4·He drew on an American cigarette.
他吸了一口美国香烟。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·Do you have an American passport?
你有美国护照吗?
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6·They live in the American Midwest.
他们住在美国中西部。
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7·The problem isn't uniquely American.
该问题并非美国独有。
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8·Can you name all the American states?
你能说出美国所有的州名吗?
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9·American fighter planes buzzed the city.
美国战机低空掠过该城市。
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10·Asked his nationality, he said American.
问到他的国籍,他说是美国人。
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1·I'm not American, I'm Canadian.
我不是美国人,我是加拿大人。
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2·Asked his nationality, he said American.
问到他的国籍,他说是美国人。
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3·Generosity is part of the American character.
慷慨是美国人性格的一部分。
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4·We're not American, actually. We're Canadian.
实际上我们不是美国人。我们是加拿大人。
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5·Three-quarters of the students are African American.
3/4的学生是非洲裔美国人。
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1·American pancakes taste sweet.
美式薄煎饼尝起来很甜。
2·She speaks American English.
她讲美式英语。
3·Chinese love American fast food.
中国人喜爱美式快餐。
4·Your English is not like American English.
你的英语不像美式英语。
5·American culture became popular so did American English.
美国文化和美式英语已成为流行。
1·American Chinese means a Chinese who is born in America.
美籍华人是指在美国出生的中国人。
2·This is because the attachment that American Jews feel to Israel is too weak, in most cases, to sway their vote.
这是因为美籍犹太人对以色列的依恋在大多数情况下太过脆弱,以至于无法左右他们的投票。
3·If, in our example, the American husband moves to France, he will be expected to play an equal part in bringing up the children—a requirement that would delight some fathers, but by no means all.
在我们所举的例子中,如果美籍丈夫去法国申请离婚,他将与妻子共同承担子女的赡养费,这可能会让某些父亲喜出望外,但决非所有父亲都会如此走运。
4·An American university lecturer in the region says the short hair and gym shoes worn by these young women would look perfectly normal on an American campus.
在该地区的一位美籍大学讲师表示,在美国校园里,这些留有短发,穿着运动鞋的年轻女性看起来非常正常。
5·The handmade bowls give evidence of "factory-like production, " says John Miksic, an American professor at Singapore's National University who is an expert on Southeast Asian archaeology.
约翰•密细是一个执教于新加坡国立大学的美籍教授,专注于东南亚考古方面的研究。 他认为,这些手工制作的碗证明那时候是“工厂式生产”。
1·Not everyone agrees with this explanation, either. But experts do agree that the word is purely American. And it has spread to almost every country on Earth.
也不是每个人都同意这个解释。但是专家们一致认为,这个单词是纯粹美国英语,而且它已经传播到地球上的几乎每一个国家。
1·It was the first time I had set foot on American soil.
那是我第一次踏足美洲大地。
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2·The permanent council of the Organization of American States meets today here in Washington.
美洲国家组织常务委员会今天在华盛顿召开会议。
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3·Let's take the now extinct American cheetah, for instance.
让我们以现在已经灭绝的美洲猎豹为例。
4·She is also the author of American Chestnut, a social history of one of America's most common trees.
她也是《美洲栗》的作者,这本书讲述了美国最常见的一种树的社会历史。
5·Williams and his colleagues sampled the blood of over 5,000 American Indians in western North America during a twenty-year period.
在20年的时间内,威廉姆斯和他的同事对北美西部的5000多名美洲印第安人的血液进行了取样。
1·I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool — a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.
我断定他——定是我那已故的邻人去利物浦旅行时带回来的那个奇怪的收获——一个东印度小水手,或是一个美洲人或西班牙人的弃儿。
1·He put on an American accent.
他假操着一口美国腔。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·He drew on an American cigarette.
他吸了一口美国香烟。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·The problem isn't uniquely American.
该问题并非美国独有。
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4·American fighter planes buzzed the city.
美国战机低空掠过该城市。
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5·It's an American flying jacket, the real McCoy.
这是件真正的美国飞行员夹克。
—— 《牛津词典》