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Americans couldn\'t live without cars!
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离开汽车，美国人无法生活! |
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Americans do not have a corner on the deathmarket, but many people feel that the United States leads the world with the worst taxes.
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虽然美国人并没有垄断了世界死亡殡葬业的市场，但是美国确以最苛重的赋税在世界上独占鳌头。 |
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Americans do not have a corner on the “death”market,but many people feel that the United States leads the world with the worst taxes.
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美国人并没有垄断“死亡”市场，但许多人感到美国却以最重的纳税在世界独占鳌头。 |
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Americans donated blood, and gave money to help the families of victims. People went to prayer services all over America, and raised flags to show their pride and unity.
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美国人捐血、捐钱，帮助受害者家属。美国各地的人们参加各种祈祷活动，手举国旗，对自己的国家感到骄傲，并显示团结。 |
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Americans elect a president every four years, and only citizens over 18 can cast a vote.
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美国每四年选一出一位总统，但只有年满18岁的公民才能投票。 |
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Americans enjoy doing many things in their cars-like watching movies at a drive-in theater (usually a double feature).
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美国人喜欢在汽车里做各种事情，像是在汽车电影院里看电影（通常连放两部影片）。 |
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Americans flocked to these fairs to admire the new machines and thus to renew their faith in the beneficence of technological advance.
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美国人蜂拥地赶到这些展览场地，来欣赏这些新机器，并因而加深了他们对科技进步的好处的信仰。 |
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Americans hate to waste food. And they can always take their leftovers home without being embarrassed. That's something we both have in common.
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美国人不喜欢浪费食物。他们可能经常把剩饭剩菜带回家，不必感到尴尬。这点是我们所共有的。 |
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Americans have a lot to think about these days, but in a nation of drivers one problem comes to mind every time car owners pass a service station: the rising price of gasoline.
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最近一段时间，美国人有很多操心事，对于一个汽车国度来说，人们每一次经过加油站时浮上心头的问题就是汽油涨价。 |
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Americans have always been in two minds about the monarchical principle.
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美国民众历来对于君主制原则持有两种看法。 |
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Americans have become so accustomed to their own equation of spelling and pronunciation that they find it hard to imagine that a tendency to pronounce by custom rather than by spelling may have been an older and more literarytradition.
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美国人已经完全习惯了自己这一套拼写和发音的方法，以至于很难想像按习俗发音而不是按拼写发音是一种更有“文学教养”的古老传统。 |
