Bryan described the situation this way: "On one side of the debate stand the business interests of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

I mean, in some ways, for all of the European criticisms of the United States, we've in some ways incorporated different religious traditions better than the Europeans.

我是指，在一些方面，尽管欧洲对美国有诸多批评，我们在一些方面融合了,不同的宗教传统，我们做得比欧洲人要好。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

but you also have a lot of people coming in from different parts of the United States that hadn't been there before.

你也能看到许多来自美国各个地区的人们，他们之前从没来过纽约。

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After the end of the Bank of the United States, there was little control of any kind over the state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

The White House Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the executive office of the president of the United States.

白宫办公厅主任,是美国总统的,行政办公室当中,职位最高的人员。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Every week at this time, we tell the story of someone important in the history of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

You are an avid backpacker, you've been all of the United States perhaps even broader.

你是个很有野心的背包客，你几乎走遍了全美，甚至更多地方。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Secretary Clinton chaired the meeting, held on the last day of the United States' month-long presidency of the council.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

They were The First Bank of the United States and The Second Bank of the United States.

他们是美国第一银行,和美国第二银行。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I, George Walker Bush, do solemnly swear... That I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States...

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Bill Gates and Michael Jordan are citizens of the United States.

盖茨和乔丹都是美国公民。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In 1958 she was appointed a delegate to the United Nations, expanding her job as goodwill ambassador of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Now if you were not born in the United States, you may still be, under definition, a natural born US citizen if you're born outside this United States, both of your parents are citizens of the United States and at least one parent has lived in the United States.

现在如果你不是出生在美国，你可能,即使你出生在美国以外的地方,只要你的父母都是美国公民,而且至少一个居住在美国,那么按照定义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Some people say Paul Bunyan was the creation of storytellers from the middle western Great Lakes area of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

In Alexis de Tocqueville's great Democracy in America, which he published in 1831,or published in 1837, after his famous nine-month tour of the United States the most famous book, travel book, ever written about America, by a foreigner.

亚利西斯·德·托克维尔的著作《美国民主》,在1831年,或者1837年出版,这是本他在美国周游了九个月之后,写成的游记,在所有由外国作家执笔,所著的关于美国的书中享有盛誉

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He will be inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, and the first black president, on January 20th.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

I don't know if that's true. I haven't been to enough cities outside of the United States.

我不知道这是不是事实。我去过美国以外的地方还很少，不能妄下定论。

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Last year,the top news story was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

So this is a general sense of what dietary guidelines of the United States are.

所以这个就是目前,美国饮食指导的大概状况

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Operators of the Hubble Space Telescope said the dark spot is about two times the length of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

And last year to did we hand students Google maps, Google news, asked them to mash those two very familiar real world products together so that they had a map of the United States, little markers sprinkled throughout, that indicated exactly where there were current events going on.

去年我们给学生提供了谷歌地图和谷歌新闻，要求他们把这两个熟悉的实时世界,产品结合到一起，这样他们就有了一个美国地图,上面到处都是一些小图标，它们能够精确地标记出,当前事件发生的地方。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A year later, the president of the United States, Jimmy Carter,honored the social scientist with America's highest award for civilians.

VOA: special.2011.07.03

Some of you-- some of the population of the United States are not going to vote for somebody because he or she is black but they won't tell you but they know it to be true.

你们有些人…,美国当中有些人,不会投某些人一票,因为她或他是黑人，但他们不会说出来,但他们很清楚这是他们的真实想法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Every member of every northern legislature, " Webster said, "has sworn to support the constitution of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

So, it's motivated by a huge blindness about the racial history of the United States in any of its detail. That sense of the oneness, I think, points to why and how he makes that illusion, the oneness.

所以这是由对美国种族历史,及其细节部分的极大无知所推动的，这样的一种同一性，我想表明了他为什么及怎样产生了那一幻觉，那种同一性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Today, Tony Riggs and Larry West tell about the beginning of the United States space program that carried humans into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

I was at Princeton from 83 to 86, got my master in chemical engineering Now i serve as the administrator of the United States Envrionment Protection Agency My engineering background is extremely important to the job i do everyday.

3-86年我在普林斯顿大学学习，取得了化学工程的硕士学位,我现在的职务是,美国环境保护署署长,我的工程学背景,对我现在的日常工作十分重要。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

Edward Kennedy never won the presidency, but became a long- serving and important member of the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.

现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

How would you compare San Francisco to other parts of the United States?

与美国其它地方比，旧金山怎么样？

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