简单释义：

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n. 美洲人；（尤指）美国人；美国英语

adj. 美洲的；（尤指）美国的

网络 美式；美国人的；美式起司

变形：

复数：americans  

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完整释义：

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n.

1.美洲人;美国人
2.美国英语
3.美洲印第安人

adj.

1.美国的
2.美洲的

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例句：

1. What she did witness was a confrontation between the ship, which was defenseless, and an American submarine.
   她所见到的是毫无自卫能力的船只和一艘美国潜水艇的冲突。

2. Obama had dual citizenship at birth - his mother was American and his Kenyan father was a British subject.
   奥巴马出生时拥有双重国籍，他的母亲是美国人而他的肯尼亚父亲是英国国民。

3. He was the first Chinese American to be elected governor of a state (Washington state).
   骆家辉曾经担任华盛顿州州长，他也是担任州长职务的第一位华人。

4. But she said the move was similar to the way American directors sometimes jumped between independent and studio productions.
   不过她同时也说，这种转化类似于美国导演在独立拍片与制片厂拍片之间跳转的情形。

5. I had been a housewife and mother for 17 years. To feed my family, I had to leave my children behind and move to an American army base.
   17年来，我一直是个家庭主妇和母亲，而今为了养家，不得不丢下孩子们，来到一个美军基地。

6. Colin, in writing the American version, how much would you say the story had to be changed from the original?
   在写美国版本的时候，你认为原版故事中的多少必须修改？

7. He said the fight, "needs to be an Afghan war, not an American war and not a NATO war. "
   他说，这场战争应该是“一场阿富汗的战争，而不是美国或者是北约的战争。”

8. To speak of American literature, then, is not to assert that it is completely unlike that of Europe.
   那么，要谈论美国文学，倒并非意欲断言，它与欧洲文学全然大相径庭。