美国人眼中的中国是怎么样的?

 Ok, so here are some Chinese snacks that I brought back to my family to try. Here we have Jay Chou potato chips. Why not you take those, dad? And Chuck, Chuck has the hot sauce,

the chili¹ sauce. Angela has the biscuits and Philip has some tofu.

The more I taste, the better they get. Are these actually made up of potato?

Yeah, they are like Pringles. What about you, Angela? _______ you get there?

Yeah, I love this.

Are they almond cookies?

Oh, that can hurt. Well, it's actually not bad.

Ok, Chuck, well, go ahead and take a little and see how that taste.

Need some water?

It tastes like kind of beef jerky but not that hard.

Do Chinese people now what beef jerky is?

??? after that.

So it's pretty hot.

Massive² production.

I, honestly, ?? think of Mulan.

China, probably the Great Wall.

Or toys.

There are two thinks that come to my mind when think of China. The first is economic.

Large, high population.

I think of there culture.

Many many many many countries are in debt to them.

Secretive.

?????

The Chinese New year and other different celebrations.

They are just growing economic like crazy.

The opening ceremony of the Olympics.

It's good for them and it's good for the world.

Here is the guy from The Green Hornet. That's him. I know it.

What about Bruce Lee?

Jackie Chen, is he Chinese or is he Japanese?

The one who always places the pretty girl in all movie.

And there is a basketball player or anything? He is pretty famous.

Is her Yao Ming?

He is so tall.

Mao Zedong is an important name somehow.

Who is Mulan?

She is a Disney character.

The story of Mulan that Disney made into movie.

She is an inspirational woman.

It's probably based on a folk tale.

She is really hard-core and ??

I hear many people talk about Confucius.

He is a pioneer or sorts.

Confucius was a man of many words.

A philosopher and just the fresh sayings

Confucius also says, "A rolling stone gathers no moss³".

Confucius says that?

I used to teach history.

I was a flight attendant⁴ for 14 years and I flew to China.

Talk about the Communist Revolution and talk about the end of the World War Ⅱ.

Would you guys ever go to China.

I know that in China they use the RMB as currency, but I don't know what that means.

We had a friend who went and climbed mountains, I think.

But actually Hongkongnese use something else because they are weird⁵ over there.

I think a little bit of the exotic⁶ food, like the bear claw.

I used chopsticks today.

or the scorpion⁷.

What does that mean? What is "Ni hao, Kai Lan"?

Can any of you speak Chinese?

I can.

What would you like to say?

Do you know what that means?

No, ??

Can you repeat this?

I've practiced that for years.

I heard of like the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

I know about Guan Yu and the Yellow Turban Rebellion⁸.

My first real experience with Chinese history was the time period of the three kingdoms.

From the video games that I used to play.

It's actually a video game on the super Nintendo system called Romance⁹ of the Three Kingdoms.

And that's what I know about Chinese history.

You played as either Cao Cao or some of the other warriors¹⁰ trying to unify¹¹ China or, your know, to build up their own armies.

Sha. Miss

No you can only play once per round.

Peach... and I'm this guy that's another peach and that makes me full life.

Hand and a fence still one of your cards.

?? one left.

No you can't kill more than once either.

My guy let me kill as much as I want.  

1 chili   

n.辣椒

参考例句：

• He helped himself to another two small spoonfuls of chili oil.他自己下手又加了两小勺辣椒油。
• It has chocolate,chili,and other spices.有巧克力粉，辣椒，和其他的调味品。

2 massive   

adj.巨大的，大规模的，大量的，大范围的

参考例句：

• A massive sea search has failed to find any survivors.经过大规模的海上搜救仍未找到幸存者。
• He drank a massive amount of alcohol.他喝了大量的烈酒。

3 moss   

n.苔，藓，地衣

参考例句：

• Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
• He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。

4 attendant   

n.随从，跟班，出席者，服务员；adj.伴随的，出席的，注意的，在场的

参考例句：

• She was interrupted by the entrance of an attendant.服务员进来，打断了她的话。
• We met the officer attendant on the general.我们见到了随从将军的副官。

5 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

6 exotic   

adj.奇异的，异乎寻常的，外（国）来的，外国产

参考例句：

• There are some exotic words in English language.英语中有一些外来词。
• She likes to wear exotic clothes.她喜欢穿奇装异服。

7 scorpion   

n.蝎子，心黑的人，蝎子鞭

参考例句：

• The scorpion has a sting that can be deadly.蝎子有可以致命的螫针。
• The scorpion has a sting that can be deadly.蝎子有可以致命的螫针。

8 rebellion   

n.造反，叛乱，反抗

参考例句：

• The next year they rose up in rebellion.第二年他们就揭竿起义了。
• The new government quickly suppressed the rebellion.新政府迅速把叛乱镇压下去。

9 romance   

n.恋爱关系，浪漫气氛，爱情小说，传奇

参考例句：

• She wrote a romance about an artist's life in Tokyo.她写了一个关于一位艺术家在东京生活的浪漫故事。
• They tried to rekindle the flames of romance.他们试图重燃爱火。

10 warriors   

武士，勇士，战士( warrior的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• I like reading the stories ofancient warriors. 我喜欢读有关古代武士的故事。
• The warriors speared the man to death. 武士们把那个男子戳死了。

11 unify   

vt.使联合，统一；使相同，使一致

参考例句：

• How can we unify such scattered islands into a nation?我们怎么才能把如此分散的岛屿统一成一个国家呢？
• It is difficult to imagine how the North and South could ever agree on a formula to unify the divided peninsula.很难想象南北双方在统一半岛的方案上究竟怎样才能达成一致。