{"Cole" = Thomas Cole (1801-1848), American painter and founder of the so-called Hudson River School of landscape painting; "Wier" = Robert Weir (1803-1889), another American landscape painter; "Greenough" = Horatio Greenough (1805-1852), American sculptor, and a close friend of Susan Fenimore Cooper's father; "Power" = Hiram Powers (1805-1873), another famous American sculptor; "Crawford" = Thomas Crawford (1813-1857), another American sculptor, whose statue of Orpheus was purchased by the Boston Athenaeum; "cabinet picture" = picture exhibited in a gallery or museum}英文原著 · 《Elinor Wyllys-1》
It is this strong impulse that my Americanization has made the driving power of my life. And I ask no greater privilege than to be allowed to live to see my potential America become actual: the America that I like to think of as the America of Abraham Lincoln and of Theodore Roosevelt--not faultless, but less faulty. It is a part in trying to shape that America, and an opportunity to work in that America when it comes, that I ask in return for what I owe to her. A greater privilege no man could have.英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
Germans remain German. An American lady of my acquaintance was about to climb from Amalfi to Ravello in company with a German lady of her acquaintance. The German lady had a German Baedeker, the American a Baedeker in English, published several years apart. The Baedeker in German recommended a path that went straight up the ascent, the Baedeker in English a path that went up more gradually around it. "Mine says this is the best way," said the American. "Mine says straight up is the best," said the German. "But mine is a later edition," said the American. "That is not it," explained the German.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
Who drinks out of American glasses? or eats from American plates? or wears American coats or gowns? or sleeps in American blankets?"英文原著 · 《The Armies of Labor》
Arch of Setting Sun. Statues, frieze, spandrels, parapet, identical with Arch of Rising Sun. Group on top, "The Nations of the West," designed by Calder, executed in collaboration with Lentelli and Roth. American figures grouped around prairie wagon, drawn by two oxen. Above wagon, "Enterprise"; in front, "The Mother of Tomorrow," white boy on one side, colored boy on other; south, a French-Canadian, an Alaskan woman, a Spanish-American, a German; north, an Italian, British-American, squaw, American Indian.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
William A. Bates, "American Marine: The Shipping Question in History and Politics" (1892); "American Navigation: The Political History of Its Rise and Ruin" (1902). These works are statistical and highly technical, partly compiled from governmental reports, and are also frankly controversial. Henry Hall, "American Navigation, With Some Account of the Causes of Its Former Prosperity and Present Decline" (1878). Charles S. Hill, "History of American Shipping: Its Prestige, Decline, and Prospect" (1883). Kelley, "The Question of Ships: The Navy and the Merchant Marine" (1884). Arthur J.英文原著 · 《The Old Merchant Marine》
Now, my purpose is to elevate America, fight for America, and if it ever came to it, die for America.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Anyway, first up is a scene from Sam German-Shepherd's "Real America." You think real America's all about cowboys?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
And you give yourself away And you give And you give yourself away [BOTH SINGING "AMERICAN PIE" IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE] American.美剧 · 《Friends》
We need now to take what we did there and spread it nationwide, so that the American dream can become the American reality.美剧 · 《House of Cards》