美元 měi yuán American dollar / US dollar 下来 下來 xià lai to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders) syn 咱们 咱們 zán men we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5] syn 美军 美軍 měi jūn US army / US armed forces 布什 bù shí Bush (name) / George H.W. Bush (1924-2018), US president 1988-1992 / George W. Bush (1946-), US President 2000-2008 你我 nǐ wǒ you and I / everyone / all of us (in society) / we (people in general) 来信 來信 lái xìn incoming letter / to send us a letter syn 华盛顿 華盛頓 huá shèng dùn Washington (name) / George Washington (1732-1799), first US president / Washington, US State / Washington, D.C. (US federal capital) 美金 měi jīn US dollar / USD 柯达 柯達 kē dá Kodak (brand, US film company) / full name Eastman Kodak Company 伊士曼柯達公司|伊士曼柯达公司[Yi1 shi4 man4 Ke1 da2 Gong1 si1] 卡特 kǎ tè Carter (name) / Jimmy Carter (1924-), US Democrat politician, president 1977-1981 美国政府 美國政府 měi guó zhèng fǔ US government / American government 公开赛 公開賽 gōng kāi sài (sports) open championship / open (as in "the US Open") 自己人 zì jǐ rén those on our side / ourselves / one's own people / one of us syn 希尔 希爾 xī ěr Hill (name) / Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs 克林顿 克林頓 kè lín dùn Clinton (name) / Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, President 1993-2001 / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician 夏威夷 xià wēi yí Hawaii, US state 美联储 美聯儲 měi lián chǔ US Federal Reserve (Fed), the US central bank 林肯 lín kěn Lincoln (name) / Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US president 1861-1865 / Lincoln, US car make 美英 měi yīng US and UK / Anglo-American 咱俩 咱倆 zán liǎ the two of us syn 美圆 美圓 měi yuán US dollar 赖斯 賴斯 lài sī Rice (name) / Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State 2005-2009 戈尔 戈爾 gē ěr Gore (name) / Al Gore (1948-), US vice-president 1993-2001 under Bill Clinton, subsequently environmental campaigner and Nobel Peace laureate 敌我 敵我 dí wǒ the enemy and us 肯尼迪 kěn ní dí Kennedy (name) / J.F. Kennedy (1917-1963), US Democrat politician, president 1961-1963 美国国会 美國國會 měi guó guó huì US Congress 罗斯福 羅斯福 luó sī fú Roosevelt (name) / Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909 / Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945 绿卡 綠卡 lǜ kǎ permanent residency permit (originally referred specifically to the US green card) 星巴克 xīng bā kè Starbucks, US coffee shop chain 米歇尔 米歇爾 mǐ xiē ěr Michel or Mitchell (name) / George Mitchell (1933-), US Democratic party politician and diplomat, influential in brokering Northern Ireland peace deal in 1990s, US Middle East special envoy from 2009 施瓦辛格 shī wǎ xīn gé Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011 中情局 zhōng qíng jú US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA (abbr. for 中央情報局|中央情报局[Zhong1yang1 Qing2bao4ju2]) 美籍 měi jí American (i.e. of US nationality) 希拉里 xī lā lǐ Hillary (name) / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician 阿拉斯加 ā lā sī jiā Alaska, US state 新泽西 新澤西 xīn zé xī New Jersey, US state 抗美援朝 kàng měi yuán cháo Resist US, help North Korea (1950s slogan) 雷德 léi dé Clark T. Randt Jr. (1945-), US ambassador to Beijing 2001-2009 中央情报局 中央情報局 zhōng yāng qíng bào jú US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA 美加 měi jiā US and Canada (abbr.) 切尼 qiē ní Cheney (name) / Richard B. "Dick" Cheney (1941-), US Republican politician, vice-president 2001-2008 里根 lǐ gēn Reagan (name) / Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), US president (1981-1989) 美网 美網 měi wǎng US Open (tennis tournament) 多尔 多爾 duō ěr Dole (name) / Bob Dole (1923-2021), US Republican politician, Kansas senator 1969-1996 奥克兰 奧克蘭 ào kè lán Auckland (New Zealand city) / Oakland (California, US city) 华府 華府 huá fǔ Washington, D.C. / the US federal government 马歇尔 馬歇爾 mǎ xiē ěr Marshall (name) / George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959), US general in WWII and Secretary of State 1947-1949, author of the postwar Marshall plan for Europe and Nobel peace laureate 基辛格 jī xīn gé Henry Kissinger (1923-), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973-1977 美国国务院 美國國務院 měi guó guó wù yuàn US Department of State 尼克松 ní kè sōng Richard Nixon (1913-1994), US president 1969-1974 / surname Nixon 弗吉尼亚 弗吉尼亞 fú jí ní yà variant of 弗吉尼亞州|弗吉尼亚州 / Virginia, US state 得克萨斯 得克薩斯 dé kè sà sī Texas, US state 霍夫曼 huò fū màn Hofmann or Hoffman (name) / August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist / Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor 富兰克林 富蘭克林 fù lán kè lín Franklin (name) / Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author 自家人 zì jiā rén sb with whom one is on familiar terms / sb from the same place (same house, same town etc) / one of us 道奇 dào qí Dodge, US automobile brand, division of Chrysler LLC 预警机 預警機 yù jǐng jī early warning aircraft system, e.g. US AWACS 白头偕老 白頭偕老 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part syn 金成 金晟 jīn chéng Sung KIM, US diplomat and director of US State Department's Korea office 哈勃 hā bó Hubble (name) / Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), US astronomer 印第安纳 印第安納 yìn dì ān nà Indiana, US state 空军一号 空軍一號 kōng jūn yī hào Air Force One, US presidential jet 亨氏 hēng shì Heinz (name) / Heinz, US food processing company 飞虎队 飛虎隊 fēi hǔ duì Flying Tigers, US airmen in China during World War Two / Hong Kong nickname for police special duties unit 忍者神龟 忍者神龜 rěn zhě shén guī Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, US comic book series, first appeared in 1984, also films, video games etc 马萨诸塞 馬薩諸塞 mǎ sà zhū sài Massachusetts, US state 乔治亚 喬治亞 qiáo zhì yà (Tw) Georgia, US state / (Tw) Georgia (country) 华盛顿州 華盛頓州 huá shèng dùn zhōu Washington, US State 卡夫 kǎ fū Kraft, US food company 张伯伦 張伯倫 zhāng bó lún Chamberlain (name) / Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999), US basketball player 马斯洛 馬斯洛 mǎ sī luò Maslow (surname) / Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), US psychologist 密歇根 mì xiē gēn Michigan, US state 内华达 內華達 nèi huá dá Nevada, US state 堪萨斯 堪薩斯 kān sà sī Kansas, US state 蒙代尔 蒙代爾 méng dài ěr Walter Mondale (1928-), US democratic politician, US vice-president 1977-1981 and ambassador to Japan 1993-1996 密西根 mì xī gēn Michigan, US state (Tw) 后生可畏 後生可畏 hòu shēng kě wèi the young will be redoubtable in the years to come (idiom) / the younger generations will surpass us in time syn 王颖 王穎 wáng yǐng Wayne Wang (1949-), Chinese US film director 美钞 美鈔 měi chāo US dollar bill / greenback 伯恩斯 bó ēn sī Burns (name) / Nicholas Burns (1956-), US ambassador to China 2022- 罗德岛 luó dé dǎo Rhode Island, US state / Rhodes, an island of Greece 哈伯 hā bó Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), US astronomer / Fritz Haber (1868-1934), German chemist 尼米兹 尼米茲 ní mǐ zī Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966), US admiral 大纪元 大紀元 dà jì yuán Epoch Times, US newspaper 马里兰 馬里蘭 mǎ lǐ lán Maryland, US state 密歇根州 mì xiē gēn zhōu Michigan, US state 新墨西哥州 xīn mò xī gē zhōu New Mexico, US state 堪萨斯州 堪薩斯州 kān sà sī zhōu Kansas, US state 美宇航局 měi yǔ háng jú US National Aeronautics and Space Administration / NASA / abbr. for 美國宇航局|美国宇航局 