And so we can thank the American buffalo that once wondered the open plains for this meaning of the word buff.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

And it's given here this sort of cliched, noble origin with the Native American, the Plains Indian.

在这儿讲有些陈词滥调的，美洲原住民草原印第安人的高尚开端。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I work in the one in White Plains in the Bronx, near the Bronx, and I do merchandising.

我在布朗克斯及其附近的怀特普莱恩斯做销售。

在布鲁明戴尔百货 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The Santee Sioux lived along the northeastern edge of the Great Plains in what is now the state of Minnesota.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

I walked out and took a trolley to my apartment and Carlo Marx's papier-mache mountains grew red as the great sun rose from the eastward plains.

我走出去推了一辆推车到我的公寓,卡洛马克思的纸型山随着,东边太阳升起变成了红色。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I was born on the plains where the wind blows free, and there is nothing to break the light of the sun.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Yes, Mary J. Blige actually shops at Bloomingdale's, in White Plains.

当然了，玛丽•布莱姬真的来过怀特普莱恩斯的布鲁明戴尔购过物。

在布鲁明戴尔百货 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

If you visit the western mountain and plains state of Montana you will know why it is known as Big Sky Country.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

In Ruxton's Life in the Far West there's an Indian who gets red all over blushing because he got so many scalps and he runs like hell into the plains to glory over his deeds in hiding.

在《卢克斯顿的生活》里在美国中西部有一个印第安人,他因为得了太多头皮而全身涨得通红,拼命跑到草原里来藏起他的荣誉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

All these things cost money. So a plains farmer had to grow crops that were in big demand.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell I guess across the night, eastward over the plains where somewhere an old man with white hair was probably walking towards us with the word and would arrive any minute and make us silent.

我们在美国的最高处大声叫喊,我想整个夜晚，在东部平原,随时可能有一个白发老人,向我们走来,让我们安静。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This month, more than one hundred researchers began deploying radar and other scientific instruments across America's Great Plains.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

So, there is a sense, in the Plains Indian, that he is both the embodiment of a noble, restrained lineage; but also, deep in that American past, is this sense of great excess.

草原印第安人有一种感觉，他既是高尚的化身，克制的血统;,但同时，在那段美洲过往的深处，是一种过度的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

ong before the first Europeans arrived in the New World, a strange looking animal lived on the rich grasses of the western plains.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

The thing I always liked, Sal, about the Plains Indians, was the way they always got s'danged embarrassed after they boasted the number of scalps they got.

萨尔，我总喜欢大草原印第安人的一点，就是他们在吹嘘自己得了多少头皮之后,总会难堪。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Instead of moving freely over the plains to hunt buffalo, the Indians would live in one place.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

The Ogallala aquifer is a major source of drinking and irrigation water for America's central plains.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

These plains Indians were always on the move, because they hunted buffalo -- the American bison.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

To farm the plains, he needed barbed wire for fences, and plows and other new equipment.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

As years passed, fewer Indians left the reservations to live the old life on the plains.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

In Eighteen-Fifty, estimates say twenty-million buffalo lived on the open plains areas of the west.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

The Indians no longer could move freely over the Great Plains to hunt buffalo.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

They did not expect an easy life. And as time passed, they found solutions to most of the problems of farming on the Great Plains.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

He points a stick at me and says: "Ha! Paleface, do you dare to enter the camp of Red Chief, the terror of the plains?"

VOA: special.2011.01.22

The Indians of the plains depended on the buffalo for almost everything they needed.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

They usually won. Some plains Indians tried to live peacefully with the white men.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

This included a plow that could break up the grassland of the plains.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Only a few years before, millions of buffalo lived on the Great Plains.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Soldiers were sent to build roads and forts in the western plains.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

The plains Indians did not want white men crossing their hunting lands.

VOA: special.2010.04.01