three New Yorks

姓名: 朱荣娜

班级：商英3班

三个纽约（埃尔文·布鲁克斯·怀特）

1.There are roughly three New Yorks.

大体上说，有三个纽约。

2.There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable.

首先是那些土生土长的男女老少的纽约，他们对这座城市习以为常，他们认为它的规模和混乱都是自然且不可避免的。

3.Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night.

其次是家住较远，到市里上下班的人们的纽约，这座城市每到白天被像蝗虫一样的人群吞噬、到夜晚又被吐出去。

4.Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.

最后是生于他乡，来这寻找工作的人的纽约。

5.Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last — the city of final destination, the city that is a goal.

在这三座骚动的城市中，最好的是最后一座——那座有着最终目标和归宿的城市。

6.It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements.

正是因为第三座城市，才有纽约高度紧张的氛围，富有诗意的风度，为艺术的奉献和无与伦比的成就。

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fa4681825.html,muters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidarity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

上班族给这座城市带来了如潮汐般的躁动不安，本地人保证了纽约的稳固和延续，而外来者则给予了纽约热情。

8.And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.

无论是从意大利来到贫民区预备开一间小杂货店的农民，还是从密西西比州的一个小镇逃出来，为避免邻居偷窥带来的侮辱的年轻姑娘，还是来自玉米种植带、手提箱里装着手稿、心中悲伤的小伙子，他们的情况都没有什么区别：

每个人都以初恋般的强烈热情拥抱纽约，每个人都是以冒险家的新奇目光理解纽约，每个人产生的热和光使爱迪生联合电气公司相形见绌。