A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
美国
America
Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
世界上的生猪屠宰商、工具制造商、小麦堆垛商、铁路运营商和全国货运公司;暴风雨,沙哑,吵闹,城市的大肩膀。
And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.
当然,一些科幻小说已经被设置得离这里很近了,现在英美和欧洲的小说都适用了。由于许多作家都有这样的背景,所以很多小说也是如此。
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
在已知的历史上,没有人比美利坚合众国人民更有能力改变宇宙。没有人以如此咄咄逼人的方式去做这件事。
It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
在那个地区,人们认为……作为该地区最重要的权力机构,目前是美利坚合众国。
I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I love 'Project Runway.' But the shows where they're just sitting in a house aren't as fun to me!
我喜欢看真人秀——我和“全美超模新秀”和“天桥骄子”保持着密切的联系。“但对我来说,他们坐在房子里看的节目没那么有趣!”
To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.
为了做到这一点,我们正在为瑞士委员会创建一个公平的机制,它不仅将传播一些事实,而且还将保护对我们所有北美人都很重要的关系。
What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
你看到的是两个人在寻求入主白宫;他们都是新英格兰显赫家族的产物。他们都上过私立寄宿学校。他们都上了一所名牌大学。
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
美利坚合众国形成了一个年轻的共和国,一个联盟,在这些原则的影响下,在这些原则的影响下,利益和感情的结合应该永远巩固这个联盟。
In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.
在曼哈顿,直到今天在某种程度上都是如此;这是一个完全不同的心态,从布朗克斯,布鲁克林和皇后区,这是我不知道的,因为你基本上只知道你的邻居。
I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.
我不这么认为,因为维珍已经是一个全球品牌。像亚马逊这样的品牌不得不花费数亿英镑来打造自己的品牌,而维珍已经在全球闻名。
I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
我记得有一次我们准备去南美,所有的东西都收拾好了,准备上车,我藏了起来,我哭了,因为我真的不想去,我想玩。我不想去。
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
我们现在必须作出决定,我们是要尊重通过多样化获得力量的多元社会的概念,还是要有痛苦的分裂,从而导致永久的紧张和冲突。
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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
自由女神像不再说:‘把你们可怜的、疲惫的、拥挤的群众给我。她拿着棒球棒大喊,“你想了解我吗?”
I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.
我觉得我这辈子都像个北方佬。
Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.
我们的女儿出生在芝加哥,她已经证明了这一点。她要戴帽子,温度必须接近零度。
Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.
我们的世界太小,不允许歧视、偏执和不容忍在世界任何角落蓬勃发展,更不用说在美利坚合众国了。
I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.
我希望你能找到一个你离不开的人。我真的。我希望你永远不必知道没有他们的生活是什么样子。
Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
我将永远完成的一切,都归功于上帝,归功于我父母的牺牲,以及美利坚合众国。