And it's Hawthorne's satire, It's apocalyptic, angry critique of all these Americans who think they're inventing everything anew every day.

这就是霍桑的讽刺作品,这是一篇启示录般的故事,是对这群自认为每天都发明新玩意儿的,美国人的愤怒谴责

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I've never seen anyone like them.' 'I found them in the West.'" So, there is that sense of the West as a source, and what he's going to do is take them back East.

我从未见过像他们一样的人’,’我在西部遇到他们的’“,对新西部的感觉成了一个源点，而他正想要把这群人带回东部。

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