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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。 |
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Americans have less job security than ever before.
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相对于以前，美国人的工作安全感变得更少。 |
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Americans have long since taken up Adams's suggestion with awesome energy and enthusiasm.
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长久以来，美国人对于落实亚当斯总统的建议可说是兴致勃勃、乐此不疲。 |
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Americans have the reputation of being very hospitable people.
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美国人享有非常好客种族的名声。 |
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Americans in the nineteen twenties began to buy all kinds of new products they had never used before.
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20世纪20年代的美国人开始购买各式各样的从前从未使用过的新产品。 |
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Americans in twenty-one states and the District of Columbia were excited about a lottery game called Powerball.
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21个州和哥伦比特区的美国人，被一个叫作“抛宝”的抽奖游戏弄得很兴奋。 |
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Americans like to think of themselves as generous people, so there was incredulity when President Bush first announced an aid grant of $15 million.
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美国人喜欢把自己看作是慷慨之人，因此当布什总统最初宣布援助1500万美元时，许多美国人都不相信是这么少。 |
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Americans marked the anniversary Tuesday of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with a salute to the nation's resilience 63 years ago.
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当地时间12月7日，美国将在在两个地方同时举行纪念仪式，纪念63年前日本偷袭珍珠港时阵亡的2000余名美军官兵。 |
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Americans may have to fight tooth and nail to election reform.
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（美国人对选举的改革，也许需要全心全力，才能达成。） |
