American Government Chapter 4. America and China Chapter 5. American Education Chapter 6. American Business Methods Chapter 7. American Freedom and Equality Chapter 8. American Manners Chapter 9. American Women Chapter 10. American Costumes Chapter 11.英文原著 · 《America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat》
{"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》
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》
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》
The question of what it is to be an American, the very essence of American-ness, how we choose to lead our lives, open and free, is on the line.美剧 · 《House of Cards》