来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第9集 第9集》

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  an area of adventure and imagination,
  西部一直意味着冒险 梦想
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  but this is well after the end of Manifest Destiny.
  在命定扩张论结束后 这是可取的
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  There is no border in the West.
  所谓西部并没有明确的边界
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  So Sal has to reinvent one,
  所以萨尔自己创造了一个
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  as their own kind of western American type,
  因为他们独特的西部风格
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  that they blossomed and grew in this particular place,
  他们在那个特定的地方活得有声有色
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  and he wants to have been there with them.
  他希望自己可以跟他们一起
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  So, in a way, by longing to be where they were when they were children,
  所以 渴望和还是孩子的他们一起住在那
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  by longing to inhabit that time, as well, he wants to become them.
  想在那时住在那 他其实是想成为他们