“The Southern Tiger” is occasionally marred by the breezy Americanisms of Mr Lagos's co-writers, journalists at Foreign Policy magazine.

拉各斯的合著者是《对外政策》杂志的记者，他们轻松活泼的美国风偶尔给《南虎》投下了败笔。

They've actually included their own Americanisms like saying betta instead of better.

事实上，这里面包含了他们自己的美国口音比如说了betta，而不是better。

Some expressions that the British call" Americanisms" are in fact original British expressions that were preserved in the colonies while lost for a time in Britain.

英国人称之为" 美国主义" 的一些表达方式实际上是英国的原始表达方式，在殖民地保存下来，在英国消失了一段时间。