As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

  • -- Daniel J. Boorstin 丹尼尔·J·布尔斯廷

作为个人和国家,我们现在正遭受着社会自恋的折磨。我们祖先深爱的回声,原始美洲,已经被遗弃了。我们爱上了自己的形象,爱上了自己创造的形象,而这些形象原来就是我们自己的形象。

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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

在西方,占据着这个国家的部落非常繁荣,这鼓励了他们早期文明的希望。在很大程度上,他们放弃了狩猎的状态,把注意力转向了农业。

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

尽管我们贫穷和经济依赖,但我们不必屈服,这既不是因为我们有时被抛弃,也不是因为一些国家希望强加其经济或政治模式。

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

在国会继续就如何处理非法移民问题进行辩论之际,我们必须记住许多辛勤工作的合法移民,他们为我们国家的经济和文化做出了巨大贡献。

Over there Spaniards and other nations know from their divine and human history when their Kings and other peoples’ Kings began their reigns.

在那里,西班牙人和其他民族从他们的神和人类历史中知道他们的国王和其他民族的国王是何时开始统治的。

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is the essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.

当一个人放弃了对上帝的信仰之后,诗歌就成为了一种本质,它取代了生命的救赎。

I've never abandoned the novel.

我从未放弃过这本小说。