just as Mississippi Gene is himself.

正如密西西比基恩是他自己本身
Their names tell you that

他们的名字告诉你
they're almost cartoonishly American types.

他们几乎就是美国的卡通式形象
The fact that Mississippi Gene knows this vague person,

密西西比基恩认识这个不确定的人物
Big Slim Hazard, gives you the feeling that

痩大个哈泽德会给你这样一种感觉
America is a tiny community in which these types loom large,

美国是一个小社会有相同的形象难以避免
that anyone from anywhere

因而不论是谁来自哪
--if he's the right kind of American

只要他正好是那类美国人
--will know the other members of that American tribe of types.

他就会认识他那类人的其他成员
So, Mississippi Gene knows the America that Sal knows,

因此密西西比基恩认识萨尔所认识的美国
and it's America populated by these larger-than-life figures.

美国就是这些非凡的人物构成的
The very vagueness of the description:

这个描述的含糊性