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原文： In his classic novel, “The Pioneers”, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, and a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. “Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?” she asks. He’s astonished she can’t see them. “Where! Why everywhere,” he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished. Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, “Life for the American is always becoming, never being.” 译文： 詹姆斯· 菲尼摩尔· 库帕在其经典小说《开拓者》中记述了主人公——一个土地开发商带着表妹游览正在由他建造的一座城市的情景。他描述了宽敞的街道、林立的房屋、热闹的大都市。但是他表妹却环顾四周，疑惑不解。她见到的只是一片森林。她问道：“你让我看的美景和改进之处在哪儿？”开发商见表妹看不到它们，感到十分惊讶。他回答说：“在哪儿？遍地都是。”虽然这座优美的城市还没在地面上出现，但它已经在他的脑海中竣工了。对他来说已经是真实具体的存在，就像建成一样。 库帕在这里揭示了一种美国人独有的特征，一种放眼未来的意识，即能够做到从未来的有利位置看待现在的事物，能够摆脱过去的束缚更加亲近未来事情的举动。正如埃尔伯特· 爱因斯坦说过的那样：“对美国人来说，生活总是在变化，从不会停滞不前。” Ex. 2 原文： The thirty-second day out of Bombay began inauspiciously. In the morning a sea smashed one of the galley doors. We dashed in through lots of steam and found the cook very wet and indignant with the ship: “She’s getting worse every day. She’s trying to drown me in front of my own stove!” He was very angry. We pacified him, and the carpenter, though washed away twice from there, managed to repair the door. Through that accident our dinner was not ready till late, but it didn’t matter in the end because Knowles, who went to fetch it, got knocked down by a sea and the dinner went over the side. The ship’s captain, looking more hard and thin-lipped than ever, would not notice that the ship, asked to do too much, appear