美國文化作文英語怎麼說
❶ 800字英語作文 有關美國文化 很急!!
Modern American culture is a juicy burger of mass culture garnished with 15 minutes of fame. It owes as much to marketing savvy, communications technology and mass-proction techniques as it does to artists and entertainers. If you can name it, American companies have invented, packaged and disseminated it to as many consumers as cheaply and conveniently as possible.
The elusive concept of 'American-ness' is often defined by cinema and television. The advent of TV in the 1950s shook Hollywood's hegemony to its core, but both forms of media have managed to coexist, even operating synergistically. The global distribution of American movies and TV shows has shaped the world's perception of the country to a high, if not completely accurate, degree.
The American music instry is the world's most powerful and pervasive, though groundswell movements remain the driving force of American pop. African Americans' influence, including blues, jazz and hip-hop, can hardly be exaggerated.
Rap, America's inner-city sound, places an equal emphasis on an ultraheavy beat, sound montage, street cred and macho posturing. Its appeal to middle-class white America will no doubt bemuse sociologists for decades.
The US has churned out a veritable forest of literature. The illustrious lineup begins with Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Henry James and Edith Wharton, and moves into the modern era with William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Jack 'Backpack' Kerouac, Arthur Miller, both the Williamses, Saul Bellow, John Updike and Toni Morisson..
After WWII, the focus of the international art world shifted from Paris to New York. Artists leaving war-torn Europe brought the remnants of surrealism to the Big Apple, inspiring a group of young American painters to create the first distinct American painting style, abstract expressionism.
The relentless ascendancy of mass media gave birth to pop art. Slick, surface-oriented and purposely banal paintings like Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans are now American icons.
When we think of US cities, we think of skyscrapers, those architectural testaments to market forces and American optimism. Chicago is a living museum of high-rise development. New York boasts its fair share of stunners too. Despite increasing homogenization, rural America retains its idiosyncrasies, and distinctive vernacular architectural styles persist in New England (clapboard), California (Spanish Mission) and New Mexico (adobe).
American sports developed separately from the rest of the world and, consequently, homegrown games such as baseball, football and basketball dominate the sports scene. Soccer and ice hockey are runners-up to the Big Three. Urban America also invented the great indoors: aerobics and the gym, indoor skiing and rock-climbing - examples of what can go wrong when too much disposable income hits up against too little leisure time.
另一篇
Abstract:
America』s history of literature began with the swarming in of immigrants with different background and cultures. After that, American literature had been greatly influenced by the European culture for a long period. It was not until America』s independence, did Americans realized that they need national literature strongly, and American literature began to developed. The Civil War was a watershed in the history, after which American literature entered a period of full blooming. Romantics, which emphasized indivialism and intuition and Tnscendentalism represented by Emerson came out into being. This was an exciting period in the history of American literature. Like the flowers of spring, there were suddenly many different kinds of writing at the same time. They have given depth and strength to American literature, and accelerated the forming of High Romantics. But e to the influence of Civil War, the American society was in a turbulent situation. The writings about local life, critical realism and unveiling the dark side of the society were increased. After The First World War, Americans were at a loss postwar, and the Modern American literature began.
My piece of paper is written in chronological order as these periods developed in order to have a clear outline of its progress.
Keywords: National Literature, Romanism, Transcendentalism, Local Color, Realism, Modern literature
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英語作來文：源美國文化_網路文庫http://wenku..com/view/e674c88ba0116c175f0e48b1.html
❸ 求一篇介紹美國文化的英語文章！要用！急急！
Jazz And The Essence of America
Considering how jazz is transcribed in Chinese (jueshi), you may be misledsintosassuming that it is an aristocratic cultural form. Nothing could be further from the truth. It originated among black Americans at the end of the 19th century, at a time when they occupied the very bottom of the American social heap.
So how has something that was created by a once downtrodden and despised minority acquired a central place in today's American culture? Mr Darrell A Jenks, director of the American Center for Ecational Exchange, and also a drummer in the jazz band Window, analyses the phenomenon for us here. Jazz: the soul of America
爵士樂與美國精髓
說到美國的爵士樂(jazz)，你可能從它的中文譯名而推斷為那是屬於貴族的音樂。殊不知恰恰相反，它源於19世紀末的美國黑人，那時他們處於社會的最底層。
然而，來自當年被奴役受歧視的黑人的音樂如今卻進入到了美國文化的主流地位，原因何在呢？美國駐華使館教育交流中心主任(也是《天窗》爵士樂隊的鼓手)金大友先生為我們分析了這一現象。
Perhaps the essence of America is that you could never get two Americans to agree on just what that might be. After thinking about it for a while, we might chuckle and say, "Hmm, seems like being American is a bit more complicated than we thought." Certainly things like indivialism, success (the "American Dream"), innovation and tolerance stand out. But these things come together because of our ability to work with one another and find common purpose no matter how diverse we might be.
Some, like African-American writer Ralph Ellison, be-lieve that jazz captures the essence of America. For good reason,for in jazz all of the characteristics I mentioned above come together. The solos are a celebration of indivial brilliance that can't take place without thesgroupsefforts of the rhythm section. Beyond that, though, jazz has a connection to the essence of America in a much more fundamental way. It is an expression of the African roots of American culture, a musical medium that exemplifies the culture of the Africans whose culture came to dominate much of what is American.
說起美國的精髓，恐怕你找不到哪兩個美國人有著相同的看法。在對這個問題考慮一會兒之後，我們可能會笑起來並且說：「嗯，看來身為美國人比我們當初想的要復雜一點兒。」當然了，強調個性，獲取成功(即「美國夢」)，創新以及包容是美國人突出的方面。但這些特點集中在美國人身上是因為我們有彼此協作的能力，而無論我們彼此會怎麼不同，我們都可以找到共同的目標。
有些人，例如美國黑人作家拉爾夫-埃里森，認為爵士樂抓住了美國的精髓，這么說是很有道理的，因為我上面提到的美國人的種種特徵在爵士樂中都體現了出來。爵士樂中的獨奏是對個人才氣的頌揚，但若沒有整個樂隊的節奏伴奏，個人才氣也無法展現。然而，除此之外，爵士樂還在更基本的方面與美國的精髓有著聯系，它表現出美國文化植根於非洲，通過音樂媒介證明了非洲人的文化已經支配了美國人的文化。
That's right, in many respects America's roots are in Africa. Read Ralph Ellison's perceptive description of the transformation of separate African and European cultures at the hands of the slaves:
"...the dancing of those slaves who, looking through the windows of a plantation manor house from the yard, im-itated the steps so gravely performed by the masters within and then added to them their own special flair,burlesquing the white folks and then going on to force the stepssintosa choreography uniquely their own. The whites, looking out at the activity in the yard, thought that they were being flat-tered by imitation and were amused by the incongruity of tattered blacks dancing courtly steps, while missing com-pletely the fact that before their eyes a European cultural form was becoming Americanized, undergoing a metamor-phosis through the mocking activity of a people partially sprung from Africa." (Ralph Ellison, Living with Music, pp 83-4).
的確，在很多方面，美國的根是在非洲。請讀一下拉爾夫-埃里森關於非洲與歐洲各自不同的文化在當年奴隸手中加以改變時所做的敏銳描述：
那些在院子里跳舞的奴隸們，透過庄園房子的窗戶，模仿著裡面主人們的莊重舞步，然後就把他們自己獨特的舞蹈才華加進去，以滑稽的動作諷刺白人，之後他們繼續將這些舞步加到他們獨有的舞蹈中。那些白人，看著窗外院子里的黑人，覺得被模仿是受到了恭維，那些衣衫襤褸的黑人跳著不協調的宮廷舞步讓他們感到好笑。此時，他們完全沒有看到這樣一個事實：就在他們眼前，一種歐洲的文化形式已經美國化了，它正通過來自非洲的一個民族所進行的嘲笑白人的活動而經歷著質變(節選自拉爾夫-埃里森的《與音樂共生》第83-84頁)。
Jazz brought together elements from Africa and Europe, fusing themsintosa new culture, an expression unique to the Americas.
而爵士樂則是把來自非洲與歐洲的音樂成分交融到一起，形成了一種新的文化，一種美洲所獨有的表現形式。
Out of this fusion came an idea that we Americans be-lieve central to our identity: tolerance. Both cultures repre-sented in Ellison's passage eventually came to realize each other's value. Americans acknowledge that in diversity is our strength. We learn every day that other cultures and peoples may make valuable contributions to our way of life. Jazz music is the embodiment of this ideal, combining elements from African and European culturesintosa distinctly American music.
Jazz reflects two contradictory facets of American life. On the one hand it is a team effort,swheresevery musician is completely immersed in what thesgroupsdoes together, lis-tening to each of the other players and building on their contributions to create a musical whole. On the other hand, the band features a soloist who is an indivial at the extreme, a genius like Charlie Parker who explores musical territoryswheresno one has ever gone before. In the same sense, American life is also a combination of teamwork and indivialism, a combination of indivial brilliance with the ability to work with others.
源於這種融合而產生的一個觀念就是包容，我們美國人認為這是我們特徵的核心。在埃里森所寫的片斷中提到的兩種文化最終都實現了各自的價值。美國人承認多樣化是力量所在；我們每天都在獲悉，其他文化、其他民族，都可能對我們的生活方式做出貢獻。爵士樂是這種觀念的化身，它把非洲和歐洲文化的內容結合到一起，成為了獨特的美國音樂。
爵士樂反映了美國生活相互對立的兩個方面，一方面爵士樂是集體行為，每一名樂手都完全沉浸到整個樂隊的演奏中，細心聆聽著其他樂手的演奏，並以每個樂手的演奏為基礎而創造出整體音樂；另一方面，一個樂隊又以獨奏手為特色，他是極具個性的，是像查理斯-帕克那樣的天才，他開創了前人從未涉足的音樂領域。在同樣的意義上，美國人的生活是團隊與個體的結合，是個人才氣與和他人合作的能力的結合。
We hope that many Chinese friends can bring their own unique contributions to our music, adding their own culture to our American heritage. As Ralph Ellison said of the US, "We have the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and we have jazz."
我們希望眾多的中國朋友能夠將其獨特之處帶進我們的音樂，把他們的文化加入到我們美國人的文化遺產中，正如拉爾夫-埃里森說到美國時，「我們有民權法案和憲法，我們還有爵士樂。」 北京青年報
❹ 英美文化差異 英語作文
1. Different social attitudes: The british are, in some ways, less conservative than Americans - the drinking age is 18, not 21, homosexual civil unions are legal, and abortion hasn't been a serious political issue in years. Mixing religion and politics is extremely rare in the UK. On the other hand, there are stricter controls on some things - it's much harder to get a driving licence, and the age requirement is higher than in most states, there are speed cameras everwhere, CCTV cameras in many public places (although they may or may not be working), and carrying weapons or other objects for "self defence" is illegal (in particular, note that pepper spray is illegal).
Getting into a debate about the right to bear arms will be very time consuming, and may also lead people to think that you're a gun-nut before they've got to know you properly.
Smoking in enclosed public places is illegal - that includes pubs, the underground, train stations... more or less any non-residential building actually... (similar to New York, so not so much of a cultural difference there).
2. The British apparently have a wider vocabulary of swear words than Americans. While most Britons will use them fairly freely in a social setting, things are a lot more reserved in formal settings & talking to strangers.
3. Pubs. I've not yet encountered an American "pub" which bears more than a passing resemblance to a typical British pub. People might go to a pub just to drink and socialise, have a pub lunch, or as part of an attempt to get alchohol poisioning (otherwise know as a "pub crawl"), as well as to watch sporting fixtures (which seems to be the main purpose in America). Going to the pub does not usually imply getting drunk. Although the drinking age is 18, bartenders are supposed to ID anyone who looks under 21.
4. Roads. Though I doubt your friend will do much driving, he should be aware of the following things: Most cars in the UK have manual transmission. Cars are smaller and more efficient, petrol is more expensive. Speed limits are higher, but enforced more rigourously. Driving in London is not worth it. Central London has a congestion charge, and is very congested, and the major motorways around London are thick with traffic at peak times. Roundabouts ("traffic circles") are very common and are used at motorway junctions. In rural areas, it's not uncommon to drive down narrow single track roads with tall hedges on either side.
5. Ecational stuff: The UK ecation system works differently, as he's probably aware. Asking people about their "High School" "GPA" "Major" or "Minor" will make people think he assumes that things work the same in the UK as in the US. In the UK, "High School" is roughly equivalent to secondary school and college (college is not used to mean university). Important exams are GCSEs and A levels, which are graded with letters and related to specific subjects. There are no majors and minors in the UK university system - there's just whatever degree you're studying.
這是比較詳細的版本，可以自己刪改一下，或者google一下difference between british and american culture，會有更多的資料。希望能幫到你！
❺ 急求關於討論美國文化的英語作文
American culture
The main content of American culture is the emphasize on indivials' value, the pursue of democracy and freedom, the promotion of deploitation(開拓, 經營) and competition and the need of realistic and practicality. Its core is indivialism: self first, personal need first, pursue of indivial benefit and enjoyment, emphasize on achieving indivial value by self-strive and self-design. This type of intentionally build up of personality and pursue customized indivialism has its pros and cons, it gives incentives to people and make them exert on their potential and wisdom and as a result accelerate the development of the entire race and nation; on the other hand it is difficult to keep good relationship among people if everyone is egocentric thus make the entire society lack of unity.
American citizens emphasize on achievements and respect heroes. They have great sense in their hearts to praise success and heroes. Personal achievements are one of those with the highest value in Americans mind. Americans have very strong senses of success. Success is the pursuit of most Americans, it is their attractive future and the incentives for moving forward. They believe that one's personal value is equivalent to his achievements in his career. Some high achievers in their career such as entrepreneurs, scientists, artists and all kinds of super starts became modern heroes. The process and result of how they strived have become the frame of reference of social culture value and the real life text book for parents to ecate their children.
American society has great movements within itself. These movements are shown in two aspects: movements amongst locations and movements inside the society. The United States are relatively more open and have more freedom. Developed transport and the tradition of adventure and sporty makes a lot of American migrate from countryside to cities, from downtown to uptown; and from north to the southern sunny land, from one city to another. Unlike European countries, the social classes in America is not so stable. Further more, with the advocation of public ecation, movements upwards along the social ladder have become possible. Many people living in the states, no matter whether they are Native American or immigrants from overseas, have the same dream of changing their social class and make their lifetime dream come true through their own efforts. This is what they often called "American dream".
❻ 求一篇英語作文 關於美國文化多元化
縱觀美國的歷史，一波又一波的移民潮構成了其最顯著的特點之一，它不僅以此為開端，而且仍以此而延續。伴隨著移民的潮湧，眾多不同種族和民族的文化與傳統逐漸在這片廣袤的新大陸上重生。世界上沒有哪個國傢具有如此多樣性的人口結構，而正是這種多樣性造就了今天的美國，同時也造就了其獨特的多元文化。
Looks over US's history, a wave another wave's immigrant influx constituted one of its most remarkable characteristics, it not only take this as the beginning, moreover still continued by this. Is following the wave which immigrates, numerous different races and nationality's culture and tradition graally in this piece of length and breadth new continent rebirth. Which country in the world doesn't have to have the so multiple population structure, but is precisely this multiplicity has accomplished today's US, simultaneously has also accomplished its unique multicultural.
❼ 關於介紹美國文化的一篇英語作文,120字單詞急要.寫好點喲.晚上考試要用
As we know,the USA is young country.So you'll find everything is so active.
Well,it's so different between China and America.
In our country,we just to remember what the Ancestors have dicovered.One day when you have learned so many that you can put forward your own opinion.
In the USA,people often like to speak out their ideas even they are the students in primary school.
For example,if we draw the sun in class.I think the sun is so different in the kids' eyes.Some would give you a line,some would be squares,some even show you the trees,because the sun just up the trees.Then our teachers must tell you the sun is round,red and shine.On the contrary,the elders in the USA just praise the kids whatever they have finished.
Of course,I'm here not to creep for the Americans,just to talk about the differences between the two countries.I'm Chinese,I love China.
匆忙趕上了一篇，自己看看字數夠不夠，不過希望你學業進步，別老是拿來主義。
作為對我勞動的肯定，清表示下，謝謝。
❽ 求一篇關於美國文化的英語作文
As we know,America is a young country,however,its culture is quite splendid,which is admitted by people all over the world,especially its fastfood culture.
In 1948,the Richards opened up the first fastfood restaurant,named Mcdonald's,beside a highway.In order to attract people passing by,they lifted up the golden neon signs,mainly selling out the hamburgers,milkshake,soda water and so on which are packed with paper bags.Due to it's convenient to carry with,those people that on the car can find the solution to eating,therefore,it's very popular with the Americans.Based on the instrial pipeline,a new kind of the fastfood came into being.With its appearance,a new lifestyle started to spread to the whole America,even affected the whole world later on.
In my opinion,the reason why the American fastfood is so popular owes to people's fast rhythm of life,and Americans are always seeking for the high efficiency no matter in their work or life.
自己寫滴，供樓主參考。不知道字數夠不夠。
❾ 需要美國文化的英文介紹
American culture
The main content of American culture is the emphasize on indivials' value, the pursue of democracy and freedom, the promotion of deploitation(開拓, 經營) and competition and the need of realistic and practicality. Its core is indivialism: self first, personal need first, pursue of indivial benefit and enjoyment, emphasize on achieving indivial value by self-strive and self-design. This type of intentionally build up of personality and pursue customized indivialism has its pros and cons, it gives incentives to people and make them exert on their potential and wisdom and as a result accelerate the development of the entire race and nation; on the other hand it is difficult to keep good relationship among people if everyone is egocentric thus make the entire society lack of unity.
egocentric: .自我中心的, 利己主義的
American citizens emphasize on achievements and respect heroes. They have great sense in their hearts to praise success and heroes. Personal achievements are one of those with the highest value in Americans mind. Americans have very strong senses of success. Success is the pursuit of most Americans, it is their attractive future and the incentives for moving forward. They believe that one's personal value is equivalent to his achievements in his career. Some high achievers in their career such as entrepreneurs, scientists, artists and all kinds of super starts became modern heroes. The process and result of how they strived have become the frame of reference of social culture value and the real life text book for parents to ecate their children.
incentive: Serving to ince or motivate:
American society has great movements within itself. These movements are shown in two aspects: movements amongst locations and movements inside the society. The United States are relatively more open and have more freedom. Developed transport and the tradition of adventure and sporty makes a lot of American migrate from countryside to cities, from downtown to uptown; and from north to the southern sunny land, from one city to another. Unlike European countries, the social classes in America is not so stable. Further more, with the advocation of public ecation, movements upwards along the social ladder have become possible. Many people living in the states, no matter whether they are Native American or immigrants from overseas, have the same dream of changing their social class and make their lifetime dream come true through their own efforts. This is what they often called "American dream".
advocation：(=advocacy)擁護；支持