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n.<美>美国,美洲(包括北美和南美洲)

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america


A·mer·i·ca
a name commonly used for the US. Although most English speakers understand that the US is often called America, many people from other countries in North and South America think it is unfair and wrong to use this word to mean only the US.
1. Ever since then, the great monument has been a symbol of liberty for the millions of people who have passed through New York Harbour to make their homes in America.
    从那时起,这座伟大的纪念碑对通过纽约港进入美国定居的千百万人来说就一直是自由的象征。

2. Edwin Land, one of America's most productive inventors, claimed the idea leading to his invention of the Polaroid camera came from his three-year-old daughter.
    美国最具创造力的发明家之一埃德温·兰德说,使他产生发明宝丽来相机这一想法的是他三岁的女儿。

3. Every day, something else in America was new and first.
    在美国,每天都有"新的"和"第一的"东西产生:

4. But all geographers agree that Asia was once linked to North America.
    但是地理学家一致认为,亚洲和北美洲曾经是连在一起的,

5. By a quirk of fate, Humboldt and Bonpland met Mariano Luis de Urquijo, Prime Minister of Spain, who was able to obtain for them the permission to visit the Spanish empire in South America.
    由于命运的安排,洪堡和庞普朗遇到了西班牙首相乌而吉乔,他可以使他们得到前往南美洲的西班牙帝国去访问的许可。

6. But studying my textbooks late at night in the library of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), I would dream, not of India, but of America, the land of opportunity.
    但是, 当我深夜在印度技术学院的图书馆里啃着书本的时候,我脑子经常想的不是印度,而是美国这个机会之国。

7. But another man takes a different approach on his trips to Latin America.
    但另一个人在他的拉丁美洲之行中却采用了不同的方法。

8. We already see that. One recent estimate is that one-sixth of all fourteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in America — mostly males — are currently "disaffected and disconnected".
    我们已经看到了这一点。最新的一项估计表明,美国所有14至24岁的人当中有六分之一--大多数为男性--现在已 "心存不满,与社会格格不入"。

9. We recently participated in an environmental fair at the Mall (购物中心) of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest indoor shopping center in America.
    最近,我们参加了一次在明尼苏达州布卢明顿市的美国购物中心举办的环境大会。此中心是全美最大的室内购物中心。

10. Wireless demand and usage have also exploded across the entire width and breadth of Latin America.
    整个拉丁美洲对无线通信的需求和使用已急速增加。

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