Spanish-American War的意思|示意

The Spanish-American War raised the curtain on the American century.

美西之战，在那个属于美国的世纪中，拉开了战幕。

The Philippines shares a long history with the United States. The islands became a U.S. colony at the end of the 19th century in the wake of the Spanish American War.

菲律宾和美国有很深的渊源，19世纪末随着美西战争的爆发成为了美国的殖民地。

The USS Olympia, in active service during the Spanish-American War, is the subject of one of the projects assigned in the course. (Photo courtesy of the U. S. Navy.)

美国海军奥林匹亚号，曾经在美国与西班牙战争中参战，是本课程中安排的项目的主题之一。(照片由美国海军提供)。

The hero of the story, the man who carried the message, was Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, who, when the Spanish-American War broke out, was a young lieutenant in the United States Army.

故事中的英雄，就是安德鲁·罗文，一个送信人，美国陆军的一位年轻的中尉。当时美西战争爆发。

With the United States becoming a colonial power in the Pacific after its victory in the Spanish-American War, many American imperialists desired to extend U. S. economic expansion to China.

在美西战争中胜利之后，美国开始成为太平洋地区一只不可忽视的殖民力量，这时许多美国的帝国主义者都非常渴望美国的经济能向中国扩张。

When the United States took control of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War in 1898, one of the first things the U.S. did was send in American teachers.

当美国控制了1898年美西战争后的菲律宾时，美国人要做的重要的一件事就是：送美国的教师来。