Isn't that when the cowboys and Indians were out there in the Old West in the covered wagons?

那个时代的美国西部不是还有,载着牛仔和印第安人的四轮马车吗

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The nostalgia here is not for the old West, but for the young West.

这里怀念的不是老西部，而是新西部。

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And 72 hours by train he found himself on a huge cotton plantation, near Pickensville, Alabama, on the in west central Alabama, on the Mississippi border, at 14-years-old.

在搭乘了七十二小时的火车后,他发现自己身处亚拉巴马的皮肯斯维尔附近,一个巨大的棉花种植园中,在亚拉巴马西部的中心,密西西比的边界,那年他仅仅十四岁

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There is a nostalgia here, not for the past of the old West.

这里有一种怀旧情结，不是怀念美国老西部。

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And part of the pleasure for him is to do that transaction, to enliven the old East with the young West. These are all stereotypes of America, but Sal really believes them and really inhabits them.

他将这群人带到纽约，其中的乐趣在于一种“交换“,他想让新西部带动老西部，使其活跃，不过这些都是,对美国的刻板印象，但萨尔真的相信，这种印象占据他大脑。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选