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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  "'Sal, where did you find these absolutely wonderful people?
  萨尔 你在哪认识这么棒的一帮人
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  I've never seen anyone like them.' 'I found them in the West.'"
  我可从没见到过 在西部认识的
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  So, there is that sense of the West as a source,
  那种西部的感觉就是一种动力
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  and what he's going to do is take them back East.
  他所做的就是把他们带到东部
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  So, the West is a fountain of youthful energy that
  西部是年轻力量的来源
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  Sal continually draws back to the East, to New York.
  萨尔屡屡地把这股力量拉到东部 到纽约
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  Sal is never really going to be gone from New York that long.
  萨尔从来都没有打算彻底远离纽约
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  He never really wants to leave, and one sign of it is that icebox,
  他从没真正想过离开 冰箱就是一个标志
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  but the other sign of it is that he continually returns
  另一个标志是 他不停回来
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  and takes these people with him.
  并且带着那帮人一起
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  And part of the pleasure for him is to do that transaction,
  他的乐趣之一就是做这样的交换
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  to enliven the old East with the young West.
  用新西部取悦老东部