Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, to a Mexican-American family.

我出生并成长于加州洛杉矶的一个墨西哥-美国混血家庭。

The Mexican-American War would last two years and claim some 40,000 lives.

美墨战争持续了两年，夺去了大约4万人的生命。

These were the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Spanish-American War.

它们分别是1812年战争、美墨战争和美西战争。

The pants likely belonged to John Dement, an Oregon merchant and veteran of the Mexican-American War.

这条裤子可能属于俄勒冈商人约翰·戴门特（音译），他是墨西哥-美国战争的老兵。

Invitations to Washington conferences arrived and I had the chance to travel abroad as a " Mexican-American representative."

我被邀请去参加华盛顿会议，并得到以“墨西哥裔美国人代表”的身份去国外旅游的机会。

It's a popular Mexican, or Mexican American food.

这是一种流行的墨西哥或墨西哥裔美国人的食物。

A group of Mexican-American students paraded a Mexican flag during a school's section celebration of Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican holiday.

一些墨西哥裔美国学生在学校庆祝墨西哥五月节的时候举着墨西哥国旗游行。

A 17-year-old chubby Mexican American girl struggling against cultural norms to fulfill her unlikely dream.

一个 17 岁的胖乎乎的墨西哥裔美国女孩为了实现她不太可能实现的梦想而与文化规范作斗争。

Low riders originated in Los Angeles after World War II over the years they have become an important expression of Mexican-American culture.

跳跳车起源于第二次世界大战后的洛杉矶，多年来他们已经成为墨西哥裔美国人文化的重要表达。

That caused another war, the Mexican-American War, but we won't have time to talk about that now.

那引发了另一场战争， 即美墨战争，但我们现在没有时间谈论它。

Yet official policy reverted to all-out war against the gangs, fuelling a new exodus of migrants to the Mexican-American border, including numerous children.

然而萨尔瓦多发布的官方政策恢复了对黑帮的全面战争，促使新一批移民涌入美墨边境，其中包括许多儿童。

That holiday is mostly celebrated in Mexico, although other parts of Latin American and Mexican-American communities in the U.S. have celebrations as well.

虽然其他拉丁美洲和美国的墨西哥裔美国人社区也有庆祝，但这一节日主要在墨西哥庆祝。

In the context of the Mexican-American War, it may be more important to  understand the Mexican struggle for independence.

在美墨战争的背景下，了解墨西哥争取独立的斗争可能更为重要。

In what is known in the U.S. as the Mexican-American war, Pierce served in the military from 1846 to 1848.

在美国众所周知的美墨战争中，皮尔斯从 1846 年到 1848 年在军队服役。

The whole lowrider movement began here in Southern California in the 1950s among the Mexican American community in this area.

整个 lowrider 运动始于 1950 年代南加州的墨西哥裔美国人社区。

Hundreds of people have converged on a remote Mormon farming community for the fierce funerals of nine Mexican-American women and children killed in an ambush.

上百人聚集在遥远的摩门农村公社，参加9名墨西哥裔美国籍女性和儿童，他们死于一场埋伏。

Both nations taking part in the Mexican-American War were – at some point in their  existence – colonies of the Old World.

参与美墨战争的两个国家——在它们存在的某个时刻——都是旧世界的殖民地。

But it was his leadership in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War that made him famous throughout the United States.

但正是他在美墨战争期间在美军中的领导才能使他在全美享有盛誉。

Remember that he had participated as part of the army fighting against Mexico just a few years earlier in the Mexican-American war.

请记住，就在几年前的美墨战争中，他作为军队的一部分参加了与墨西哥的战斗。

Many Mexicans have immigrated to the United States, and there is a large Mexican American population here, as well as many Mexican immigrants.

许多墨西哥人移民到美国，这里有大量的墨西哥裔美国人，以及许多墨西哥移民。