over and over and over and over,

反反复复地
were remaking American society,

重塑着美国的社会
would remake its future,

重塑着美国的未来
and would make the United States the greatest manufacturing,

而且会让美国成为全球制造业和
industrial producing nation on earth. True.

工业生产的绝对巨头而事实的确如此
All of this national self-congratulation ignored or masked

国家的这些洋洋自得掩盖了
some of the less admiral features of American life.

美国人生活中不和谐的场景
And of course it would.

而这是当然的
You don't have a national centennial celebration and then say,

你没有举办全国百年庆典然后又说
"Oh by the way, you can buy your ticket here to celebrate

"顺便说声你要买票才能参加庆典
and you can buy your ticket here to look at all of our tragedies."

你要买票才能看到我们的悲剧"
We don't do that,do we?

我们不能这样做