英语美文：Proud Americans

 经典英语美文阅读：Proud Americans　骄傲的美国人

Americans are proud to be Americans.But each individual will explain that he ,personally,is not like the other Americans. He is better.

Americans are proud to be different from each other and from the world. There is no such thing as a plain American.

Every American is a hyphenated American. And a American will say,"i am a Polish."or "I am an Italian." Because his great grandparents were born in Poland or Italy,a spirit of rug individualism proveeds virtually every aspect of American life.American's heroes are outlaws¹, like wild west gunfighter Jazz Janes,or entrepreneur like Samuel Watten,founder of the Walmalt chain of super stores. Every American worker has fantasies of one day going into business of himself.

1 outlaws   

歹徒，亡命之徒( outlaw的名词复数 )； 逃犯

参考例句：

• During his year in the forest, Robin met many other outlaws. 在森林里的一年，罗宾遇见其他许多绿林大盗。
• I didn't have to leave the country or fight outlaws. 我不必离开自己的国家，也不必与不法分子斗争。