【American音标】 英[əˈmerɪkən] 美[əˈmerɪkən]
【单词释义】 American是什么意思：
n.美国人，美洲人；美国英语
adj.美国的，美洲的；地道美国式的
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] Americans
【单词例句】
◇ For example, if a boss fluently commands his driver, “Come up straight to my apartment by elevator and take some gas for my trucks and cabs”, instead of requesting, “Please come to my flat by lift and take some petrol for my lorries and taxis”, you can recognize his American identity, while the latter suggests that he is British.
例如，如果有个老板流利地命令他的司机：“Come up straight to my apartment by elevator and take some gas for my trucks and cabs（直接搭电梯到我公寓上来拿卡车和出租车的汽油）”，而不是要求说，“Please come to my flat by lift and take some petrol for my lorries and taxis（请直接搭电梯到我公寓上来拿卡车和出租车的汽油）”，你就可以轻易地辨认出他的美国人身份，而后者却暗示着那是一位英国人。（请注意：elevator是美式说法而lift是英式说法)
---- Different Countries Have Different Kinds of Englishes
◇ Microwaves, like radio waves, are a type of of "non-ionizing radiation," meaning they don't have enough energy to knock electrons out of atoms, the FDA says. Microwaves are therefore not known to damage DNA inside cells, according to the American Cancer Society.
FDA称，和无线电波一样，微波是一种“非电离辐射”，这意味着微波不具有足以撞击电子使其脱离原子的能量。因此，美国癌症学会表示，并不认为微波会破坏细胞内的DNA。
---- Is It Safe to Stand in Front of Microwave Ovens?
◇ In new study published in the American Chemical Society’s journal Nano Letters, experts found that simply washing your fruits and vegetables in the sink "cannot wholly remove pesticides" because they can actually "penetrate the peel layer into the pulp layer."
发表在美国化学学会期刊《纳米快报》上的一项新研究中，专家们指出，仅仅在水槽里清洗水果和蔬菜“不能完全去除农药”，因为农药实际上可以“穿透果皮层进入果肉层”。
---- How to washing your fruits and veggies
◇ Around the same time England adopted autumn, the first-ever British American colonists were voyaging to North America.
大约在英格兰人采用autumn来指代秋天的同一时间，第一批去美国的英国殖民者开始漂洋过海到了北美。
---- The reason why Americans refer to Autumn as fall?
◇ The American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNSF) says that, in general, "you should avoid putting things in your ears," including cotton swabs. Using a swab to clean the ear can actually be counterproductive and push earwax back into the ear. What's more, cotton swabs or other tools may cause irritation or even injury to the ear, such as a punctured eardrum or ear infection, according to AAO-HNSF.
美国耳鼻咽喉头颈外科学会说，一般而言，“应该避免把一些东西弄到耳朵里”，包括棉签。用棉签清洁耳朵实际上可能事与愿违，并把耳垢推回到耳朵里。此外，棉签和其他工具可能对耳朵造成刺激、甚至损伤，例如耳膜穿孔或耳部感染。
---- Never Cleaning Ears With Cotton Swabs
◇ The findings, published on the American College of Cardiology, come days after a similar study showed people who skip breakfast and eat a late dinner are less likely to survive a heart attack.
该研究结果刊登在《美国心脏病学会》期刊上，而在几天前，一项类似的研究显示，不吃早餐且吃晚饭较晚的人在心脏病发作时幸存下来的可能性要小一些。
---- Skipping breakfast could raise risk of heart disease by 87%
◇ Every day, Americans throw away 500 million plastic straws, enough to circle the Earth twice, or fill 125 school buses.
每天美国人都要扔掉5亿根塑料吸管，足以绕地球两圈，或者装满125辆校车。
---- Is time up for this plastic relic
◇ Scientists from the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the California Institute of Technology are to announce details of their analysis this week.
这星期，美国国家航天航空中心和加里弗尼亚技术研究所宣布了他们对爆炸研究分析的细节。
---- The Big Bang
◇ A famous American John Muir said in 1898: “The Grand Canyon -- as unearthly in the color and grandeur and quantity of its architecture as if you had found it after death on some other star.”
一位著名的美国人约翰-缪尔曾在1898年说过：“(科罗拉多)大峡谷 —— 它的色彩和构造的宏伟多样是世上所无的，就像是人消亡以后在别的星球上发现的东西。”
---- The Grand Canyon
◇ By the mid-nineteenth century, the term"icebox"had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States.
直到19世纪中期，"冰箱"这个名词才进入了美国语言，但冰仅仅只是开始影响美国普通市民的饮食。