"But when industry became more important than agriculture in American life, families became smaller."

"但是,美国人生活中当工业比农业更为重要时,家庭开始变小。"

In their pages Americans were often portrayed as crass, loud, bumptious.

他们记录中，美国人经常被描绘成粗鲁、大声喧哗、自以为是形象。

Americans speak with derision of those who are lazy.

美国人总是带着嘲笑口气谈论那些人。

Americans are free to pick and choose from a promiscuous array of values and behaviour.

美国人可以随意选择形形色色价值观和行为方式。

Americans now masticate 86 million pounds of meat every day.

美国人现每天要吃掉千六百万磅肉。

Today, Americans masticate 86 million pounds of meat every day.

今天, 美国人每天要吃掉千六百万磅肉。

The Americans and Russians have launched many rockets into space.

美国人和俄罗斯人已把许多火箭发射到太空。

That Northerners should feel superior on the racial issue was understandable.

美国北部人对待种族问题上到骄傲是可以理解。

But except for a shopping binge on the day after Thanksgiving, Americans remained tightfisted.

但是除恩节后那天出现购物高潮以外，美国人仍是舍不得花钱。

In this way, Americans 'send their climates' to people in other states.

这样美国人把'本地气候'传送给其它州人。

The Americans cut back the word “catalogue” and it became “catalog”.

美国人把catalogue这个词加以缩短, 成catalog。

He's emigrated to the USA and gone completely native.

他已移居美国且完全成美国人。

Many Americans viewed the war in Vietnam with unaffected revulsion.

许多美国人对越战有一种出自内心厌恶。

Usually Americans go Dutch when they go outeat, unless itunderstood aheadtime that one person will payeveryone.

美国人外出吃饭通常各自付帐，除非之前人说请客。

America's idolatrous worship of the auto.

美国人对汽车偶像式崇拜。

A book which is still being discussed by many Americans today is 'Future Shock' by Alvin Toffler.

"阿尔文.托夫勒著作'未来冲击'这本书,有许多美国人至今还议论着。"

9 see joke: An American, a southron and a Canadian die in a traffic accident.

一位美国人，一位英格兰人和一位加拿大人一场车祸中丧生。

It wasn’t that long ago that Americans bestrode the globe with the world’s strongest currency in their pockets.

就不久前，美国人还口袋里装着世界上最强大美元高踞于地球之上。

The biases latent in every character, black or white, drive home the improbability of racial reconciliation in America.

无论正邪，每个角色中都潜藏着偏见，让人明白美国种族和解希望甚微。

If Americans didn't get a new car every year thousands of our workpeople would be out of work .

假如美国人不每年买一辆新车，那么千千万万工人们就会失业。