It's important that Denver is in the West.

丹佛在西部这很重要
The nostalgia here is not for the old West, but for the young West.

这里的怀旧不是为老西部是为新西部
The West in On the Road is an area of youth.

《在路上》的西部是热血洋溢的年轻人的
It's always, in American lore, been

在美国人的意识里
an area of adventure and imagination,

西部一直意味着冒险梦想
but this is well after the end of Manifest Destiny.

在命定扩张论结束后这是可取的
There is no border in the West.

所谓西部并没有明确的边界
So Sal has to reinvent one,

所以萨尔自己创造了一个
and in some sense it's a border of time.

某种程度上这是以年龄划分的边界
It's a spring of youth that's inaccessible, somehow, to Sal,

那是年轻的活力萨尔所遥不可及的
that these men he's with who are so exciting to him

和他一起的那些人令他无比兴奋
as their own kind of western American type,

因为他们独特的西部风格