新概念英語二在線課程

新概念英語第四冊句子學習：威廉.哈特和早期的西部

356. Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood,

哈特與大部分同時代在好萊塢的演員不同，

357. Hart actually knew something of the old West.

他確實了解西部早期拓荒生活的一些情況。

358. He had lived in it as a child when it was already disappearing,

作為一個孩子他曾在西部生活過，當時西部拓荒生活正在消失。

359. and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences,

他塑造的英雄人物深深地扎根于他本人的記憶和經(jīng)歷之中，

360. and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier.

也扎根于有關(guān)已經(jīng)消失的拓荒生活的歷史和神話之中。

361. And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized,

雖然在美國歷史上沒有任何時期或地區(qū)像西部拓荒時期那樣被荒謬地浪漫主義化了，

362. myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena,

但神話和事實至少在某一個舞臺上共存，

363. the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.

也就是存在于個人與漸漸闖入的文明這兩者的沖突之中。

364. Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indians were bewildered by politicians, bankers and businessmen,

習慣與大自然和印第安人作斗爭以求生存的拓荒者被政客、銀行家和商人搞得暈頭轉(zhuǎn)向，

365. and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos.

最后被圈地、尖律我外來的清規(guī)戒律所擊敗。