英美概况美国部分(修正版)
PART TWO The United States of American
1. Population, race and ethnic groups 人口和种族
1) introduction 概要
①the third most populous country in the world,with 255.5 million people.
② a nation of immigrants.Immigration accounts for a major source of population growth.There are many racial and ethnic groups. Between 80% and 90% of immigration ot the United States now is from Asian and Hispanic counties.The first immigrants in American history came from England and Netherlands. Population movements are common in America. 移民是人口增长的一个主要原因。到目前80%-90%的移民来自亚洲和西班牙语国家。
美国历史上最早的移民来自于英格兰和荷兰。人口迁徙在美国很普遍。
2) Black people and the Civil Rights Movement
①blacks and slavery
the largest of the racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S., which 12.1 per cent of the population;
the first blacks were brought to North America as slaves in 1619. 美国最大的少数人种是黑人,占人口的12。1%;1619 年最早的黑人作为奴隶被运至美国。
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②The slave system was formally ended by Lincoln ‘ s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Consititution in 1865.the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s demanded degregation and equal right.
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1863 年林肯总统的《解放宣言》和1865 年的《宪法第13 修正案》使奴隶制度正式瓦解。废除种族隔离和人
zhanli权平等导致了1960 年的民权运动。
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2. American History
1) The —discovery II of the New World 发现新大陆
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①The ——first America ns II were the In dia ns
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②In the late 15th cen tury, Christopher Columbus, an Italia n n avigator, supported by the Spanish queen, he led his men to sail across the vast ocean in 1492 and reached some small islands in the now west Indies.He thought he had reached Asia and didn ‘ t know he had disvovered a New Continent.
15 世纪后期,意大利航海家克里斯多弗.哥伦布,在西班牙女王的支持下,于1492 年率领船队穿越浩瀚的大西洋,抵达了现在西印度群岛的一些小岛。他误以为到达了亚洲,并不知道自己已经发现了一个新大陆。
③Ameriga Vespucci proved that the land was a new continent.Therefore, the land was named America after
him.
阿美利歌。韦斯普奇证明了这是新大陆,因此,以他的名字命名。
2) Caus of the colonization of the New World
Opportunity was a magic word. ①The new World drew English nobles (who dreamed of getting more land and establish ing great new estates.). ② Drew other people who could not find jobs in En gla nd. ③ Most of all , it drew the poor and the homeless from the farmla nds and villages of Europe. ④ Many ttlers came to the English colonies in arch of religious freedom becau they had been percuted in England.
机遇是一个神奇的词。 1 )他吸引了英国的贵族 (那些梦想在荒原上创建庞大的新地产的) 2)
经典台词对白吸引那些在英国无法找到工作的人。3)尤其是吸引了欧洲农场和乡村的穷人和无家可归的
人。4)许多人为寻求宗教自由而在这英国殖民地定居下来,因为他们在英国受到宗教迫害。
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1607 and 1733 the British established 13 colonies along the east coast of North America. They were Virginia,
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachutts, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jery, Pennsylvania and Georlina. 美洲的第一块英国殖民地于1607 年在弗吉尼亚的詹姆斯建立。从1607 年到1733 年间,英国在北美的东海岸建立了13 个殖民地。它们是弗吉尼亚、缅因、新罕布什尔、马塞、康涅狄格、纽约、罗得岛、马里兰、北卡罗来纳,南卡罗来纳、新泽西、宾夕法尼亚和佐治亚。
In 1620,201 of Pilgrims sailed to the New World in a ship called Mayflower.They arrived at Plymouth and built the Plymouth colony.The Puritans (清教徒),unlike the Pilgrims(清教徒前辈)who were artisa ns and peasa nts,were wealthy,well -educated gen tleme n. The Purita ns did not allow religious disnt.The colonists were building a new way of life in the New World.There were a number of features which would play a role in forming
the American character.They were:reprentative from of government,rule of law,respect of individual rights,religious tolerance and a strong of individual enterpri.
1620年,清教徒前辈中的201人乘坐一5月花号H船来到新大陆,在普利茅斯建立了殖民
地。清教徒和身为手艺人或农夫的清教徒前辈不同,他们富有,是受过良好教育的绅士。清教徒不允许异教存在。殖民者在新大陆建立了一种新的生活方式。以下几点为美国特色的形成起到一定作用:政府的代表形式,法制,对人权的尊重,宗教的宽容和强大个人进取精神。
3)T he American War of Independence and its conquences. 美国独立战争极其影响
①the caus:With the developme nt of econo my,the people in the colonies wan ted more power to determine their own business.But the policy of the British government was to bring the development under control and collect more taxes from the colonies.
原因:随着经济的发展,殖民地人民要求更多的自决权。而英国政府的政策是要把经济发展控于股掌,并向殖民地征收更多的税
②the Bost on Tea Party(波士顿茶叶事件):In 1773, veral dozen Bosto n reside nts dresd as Indians boarded the ships of the British East India Company and threw the tea into the harbor.
1773年,几十名波士顿居民化装成印第安人,登上英国东印度公司的船,将茶叶倾入海中。
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③the First con ti nen tal Con gress: In September 1774, the First Continen tal Con gress was held in Philadelphia which encouraged Americans to refu to buy British goods.