1. And on Asians. Already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms.
    靠的是亚洲人。硅谷许多公司中工程技术人员的大多数是东方人和亚裔美国人。

2. As it happens, a razor that is safe in Europe is unlikely to electrocute Americans.
    碰巧在欧洲使用安全的剃须刀不大可能使美国人触电身亡，

3. Americans believe no one stands still. If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind.
    美国人认为没有人会停止不前。如果你不求进取，就会落伍。

4. Americans tend to become trapped in a working and spending consumption mode, driven by merchants, that leads them to rack up their expectations.
    美国人往往会陷入一种由商人们所鼓吹的工作-花钱消费的模式之中，这种模式引诱他们抬高了自己的期望值。

5. Americans in the future will probably not live as Americans do today.
    未来的美国人可能不会像现在的美国人那样生活。

6. And despite the mistakes they'll make, they'll persist — so that one day they can cruise alongside Americans and Western Europeans on the information superhighway.
    而且，尽管他们会犯错误，他们仍会坚持不懈--总有一天，他们将能在信息高速公路上与美国和西欧并驾齐驱。

7. She hit the target. Americans are quite religious (the majority being Christian) and have a special place in their hearts for pets.
    她达到了目的。美国人笃信宗教（绝大多数美国人都是基督教徒), 而且宠物在他们心里占有特殊的地位。

8. Since then, AIDS has killed more than 204,000 Americans — half in the past few years alone.
    自那时以来，艾滋病已夺走了20.4万多美国人的生命--其中有一半是在过去几年中丧生的。

9. Mrs. Cox´s favourite subject is literature, and her most exciting classes are those on the literature of Black Americans.
    科克斯夫人特别喜爱文学课，她讲的最富有激情的课就是美国黑人文学，

10. If you knew the story of how these people had been snatched from their thriving lands and sold into slavery, and if you saw that the Black Americans and the Black Africans were after all of one people, then you really needed to start by weeping, beca
    如果你了解这些人当年是如何从他们富庶的土地上被抓走，被卖做了奴隶；如果你意识到美国黑人和非洲黑人实际上是一个民族，那么你一定会失声痛哭，因为任何语言都无法描述我们民族历史上的那段悲惨遭遇。