英语名篇名段背诵精华小说28：美国人The Americans(双语+MP3)

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[00:14.39]28 The Americans美国人
[00:17.00]Americans are a peculiar people. They work like mad, then give away much of what they earn.美国人是一个与众不同的民族。他们拼命地工作，然后花掉了大量辛苦赚来的钱。
[00:24.49]They play until they are exhausted, and call this a vacation. They live to think of themselves as tough-minded business men, yet they are push-overs for any hard luck story. 他们玩得筋疲力尽，并称之为度假。他们向来把自己想成硬心肠的商人，可是任何不幸的故事都会使他们受骗。
[00:37.06]They have the biggest of nearly everything including government, motor cars and debts, yet they are afraid of bigness. 几乎所有最大的东西他们都有 ：政府，汽车和债务，可他们害怕庞大。
[00:46.06]They are always trying to chip away at big government, big business, big unions, big influence. They like to think of themselves as little people, average men, and they would like to cut everything down to their own size.所以他们总是要想办法除去大的政府，大的买卖，大的团体，大的影响力。他们愿意把自己看成是小人物，平平常常的人，喜欢一切都是平等的。
[01:01.51]Yet they boast of their tall buildings, high mountains, long rivers, big state, the best country, the best world, the best heaven.他们吹嘘自己的高楼大厦，高山，大河，吹嘘自己是大国，是最好的国家，是最好的世界，最好的天堂。
[01:11.94]They also have the most traffic deaths, the most waste, the most racketeering.同时，他们的车祸最多，浪费最多，骗子也最多。
[01:18.52]When they meet, they are always telling each other, "Take it easy," then they rush off like crazy in opposite directions.美国人一见面就对彼此说：“放轻松点，”然后就向相反的方向狂奔。
[01:26.66]They play games as if they were fighting a war, and fight wars as if playing a game.他们做游戏象打仗一样，打起仗来象做游戏。
[01:32.82]They marry more, go broke more often, and make more money than any other people.跟任何人相比，他们结婚次数更多，离婚的频率更高，赚的钱更多。
[01:38.95]They love children, animals, gadgets, mother, work, excitement, noise, nature, television shows, comedy,他们爱孩子，爱动物，爱小玩艺，爱母亲，爱工作，爱激动，爱吵吵嚷嚷，爱大自然，爱看电视节目，爱看喜剧
[01:52.08]installment buying, fast motion, spectator sports, the underdog, the flag, Christmas, jazz, shapely women and muscular men, classical recordings, crowds, comics, cigarettes, 买东西喜欢分期付款，喜欢快节奏，爱买票看体育比赛，同情弱者，热爱国旗，爱过圣诞节，听爵士乐，爱看身材好的女子和肌肉发达的男人，爱收藏经典唱片，爱凑热闹，看连环画，抽烟
[02:10.08]warm houses in winter and cool ones in summer, thick beefsteaks, coffee, ice cream, informal dress,plenty of running water, do-it-yourself, and a working week trimmed to forty hours or less.喜欢房子冬暖夏凉，爱吃切得厚厚的牛排，爱喝咖啡，吃冰淇淋，穿着随便，喜欢自来水一直淌着，一切自己动手，一周工作时间限制在40小时以内。
[02:27.78]They crowd their highways with cars while complaining about the traffic, flock to movies and television while griping about the quality and the commercials,他们一边开车涌向公路一边抱怨交通，一边结队去看电影电视一边抱怨其质量和广告。
[02:39.21]go to church but don't care much for sermons, and drink too much in the hope of relaxing － only to find themselves stimulated to even bigger dreams.他们去教堂但不关心布道，多喝酒希望放松却受到刺激产生更大的梦想。
[02:51.30]There is of course, no typical American. But if you added them all together and then divided by 226 000 000 they would look something like what this chapter has tried to portray.当然没有典型的美国人。但是如果你把他们加在一起，然后用226 000 000来除，他们的样子就象这一章要描述的。
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