described the residents of industrial cities.

工业城市里的居民
His quotes come from an excellent book by a guy

他引用了一本名著上的内容
called Alease

这本书的作者是一个叫做李斯的人
whose wife teaches at Penn.

他的妻子在宾夕法尼亚大学任教
He called the residents of industrial cities such as his

他形容像他那样的工业城市居民是
own as "The debris which the vast whirlpool of human

"巨大旋涡中的碎片
affairs deposited here in one of its eddies,

人类的事件沉淀在它的漩涡中
associated but not united,

虽然一致却不是一个整体
contiguous but not connected."

虽然是相邻的但没有连接”
That's a perfect description of the uprooting hypothesis.

这是对迁移假设的完美诠释
There's nothing you can do to save people from themselves.

你无法帮助人们从自身中解脱
To take an example from Paris, because I'm going to talk about

举个巴黎的例子因为我稍后会讲到巴黎