【The Newsroom】S01E01（01）美國不是最偉大的國家
Hints：
sorority girl
star-spangled?
incarcerated?
And with a straight face, you are gonna tell students that America is so star-spangled awesome that we are the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The U.K., France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia. Belgium has freedom! 207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom. And, yeah, you, sorority girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know, and one of them is there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we are the greatest country in the world. We are 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, number four in labor force and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now, none of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you nonetheless are, without a doubt, a member of the worst period generation period ever!
而你居然板著臉告訴學(xué)生美國是如此偉大以至我們是世界上唯一擁有自有的國家嗎？加拿大擁有自由。日本擁有自由。英國、法國、意大利、德國、西班牙、澳大利亞、比利時(shí)都有自由！全球207個(gè)主權(quán)國家中，大概有180個(gè)都有自由。還有你，聯(lián)誼會(huì)女生，有些事情你是要知道的，以免你以后不小心走進(jìn)了投票站。其中之一就是：根本沒有證據(jù)能證明美國是世界上最偉大的國家。我們識字率排第七，數(shù)學(xué)能力排第二十七，科學(xué)排第二十二，壽命排第四十九，嬰兒死亡率排第一百七十八，中等家庭收入排第三，勞動(dòng)力排第四，出口額排第四。只有三項(xiàng)我們占據(jù)榜首：監(jiān)禁人員占總?cè)丝诒戎?，相信天使存在的成人?shù)量以及國防開支。我們國防支出比后面26個(gè)國家的總和還要多，其中25個(gè)還是同盟國。當(dāng)然，這都不是20歲大學(xué)生的錯(cuò)，然而，毋庸置疑，你們活在史上最糟糕的年代！
