1. "They want to make their own arrangements, rather than let a court decide," said the president of the New York chapter of the American Academy of Marriage Lawyers. "他们想自己安排解决,而不想让法庭裁决," 美国婚姻法律师协会纽约分会的会长说。
2. A lawyer in a London law firm that often handles divorces for British-American couples noted that in Britain, prenuptial agreements were "just about ignored" by the courts because English law says that circumstances of a marriage aren't sta 伦敦一家法律公司的一名律师经常为分处英美两国的夫妇处理离婚事宜。他注意到,在英国,法院"几乎忽视"婚前协议,因为英国的法律认为婚姻状况不是静态的,因此应由法官来决定资产怎样分配。
3. As I experimented with being an American, I bought into the American value system. 在试着当一个美国人的同时,我也进入了美国的价值体系。
4. Another Disney spokesman said earlier that the aim of the theme park is to provide a basically American experience for those who seek it. 迪斯尼的另一位发言人早些时候说主题公园的目的就是为那些追求美式生活的人带来基本上是美国式的体验。
5. Anyone tiring of American or fake European culture can reach the Louvre art museum by express railway in less than an hour — from Minnie Mouse to Mona Lisa in a flash. 任何人厌倦了那里的美式或仿冒的欧式文化了,就可乘快速列车,不到一小时就可到达罗浮宫,一瞬间就从米尼老鼠身边来到了蒙娜·丽莎面前。
6. You find a lot of violence in some American films. 有些美国电影里有大量的暴力行为。
7. Some years ago an American psychiatrist named William Dement published experiments dealing with the recording of eye-movements during sleep. 前些年,美国一位精神病学者发表了一篇报告,报告中记录了眼球在睡眠时的活动情况。
8. Professor Ronald Bracewell, a leading American radio astronomer, argued in Nature that such a superior civilization, 美国一位重要的射电天文学家罗纳德.布雷斯韦尔教授在《自然》杂志上提出了这样的观点:
9. Professional teachers are brought in to help with special subjects, but mostly parents and children work together on units like studying the Greeks or the American Civil War, reading about events, making costumes(戏装), and learning how people used to 一些专业教师被请来上一些专门课程,但有些学习单元主要由家长和孩子一同学习,如学习希腊史和美国内战史,阅读关于重大事件的书籍,制作舞台道具以及了解过去人们的生活方式。
10. People everywhere are wondering whether Europeans would like the American recreation. 各处的人们想知道欧洲人是否会欢迎美国式的消遣活动。