He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

他不知道那个梦已经丢在他的背后，丢在这个城市那边那一片无垠的混沌之中不知什么地方了，那里合众国的黑黝黝的田野在夜色中向前伸展。

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He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

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Perhaps the reason is that those who toiled all day in the fields became dark while the aristocratic elite, protected from the sun, remained pristine white.

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