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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。 |
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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。 |
