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Last week's elections highlighted the divide between urban and rural America.
上周的大选凸显了美国城乡之间的巨大差异。

Author Gary Shteyngart spent a good deal of time in both camps and was surprised by what he learned.
作家加里·斯特恩加特历时弥久探访了两个阵营，对于自己的发现，他感到很震惊。

That's tonight's In My Humble Opinion.
所以，欢迎来到今晚的《我之拙见》。

My novel Lake Success is the story of a hedge fund manager
我的小说《成功湖》讲述了一个对冲基金经理的故事。

who flees his failing marriage and an impending SEC investigation on a cross-country Greyhound bus trip.
这个人为了逃离了失败的婚姻，以及躲避美国证券交易委员会即将对他进行的调查，就乘坐越野的灰狗巴士离开了。

To research the book, I did two things.
为了研究这本书，我做了两件事情。

I spent four months touring the country on the Hound, as we called it,
我历时4个月周游祖国各地，

and I spent four years hanging out with hedge fund managers in Manhattan.
又花费4年的时间跟曼哈顿的各种对冲基金经理打交道。

Along the way, I got to ask the question, who is happy in America? And, conversely, who is not?
过程中，我都会问一个问题：美国的哪些人有幸福感？哪些人没有幸福感？

The answers surprised me and changed the tone of the book I was writing.
答案让我大吃一惊，并改变了我所写的这本小说的基调。

Being a Leningrad-born sap, or Soviet Ashkenazi pessimist, let's start with the unhappy people, hedge fund managers.
作为一名生于列宁格勒的人，或者说苏联的德系犹太悲观主义者，让我们先从一类不幸福的人说起吧——对冲基金经理。

There was the competitive nature of their job, the sense that nothing was ever enough,
他们的工作本身竞争就很激烈，所以他们会有一种做再多都不够的危机感，

and the fact that the money they earned represented not a means of sustenance,
他们赚的钱并不是用来维持生计用的，

but a form of winning, of being right, of proving to their fellow competitors that they had the answers to the universe.
而是象征着胜利，象征着自己是正确的，并向自己的竞争者们炫耀自己找到了正途。

Then there was the Greyhound. The unhappiest people there seemed to be those who perceived
但后来他们还是逃离了这一切，不幸福的人似乎是那些知道自己的

they were about to suffer a fall in status, as well as financial well-being.
社会地位和财政状况会下降的人。

Around Louisiana, a group of white supremacists boarded the bus and spoke loudly of crucifying Muslims and Jews.
在路易斯安那州，一群至上主义的白人上了公交后，就开始大声讨论着要折磨穆斯林人和犹太人。

As we drove past Grambling State University, a historically African-American college,
在公交行驶过关柏林州立大学这家有着深厚历史的非裔美国人的大学的时候，

one of the white supremacists pointed to a group of summer students and said,
其中一名至上主义的白人指着一群暑期学生说道，

Well, they have their colleges, and one day, we will have ours.
他们有自己的大学可以读，我们有朝一日也会有的。

Which part of Dartmouth don't you understand? I wanted to say to him. So, who were the happiest people?
关于达特茅斯，会有什么不能理解的地方吗？我想跟他说。所以谁才是最幸福的人呢？

First-generation college students were a permanent fixture of my month on the bus.
在我坐公交的那个月里，第一代大学生一直也都在公交上。

Often, they would cross state lines to see their folks or their girlfriends or boyfriends.
他们经常会跨州去看望自己的家人或者男女朋友。

They still talked about their prospects, the way we imagine young Americans always have, with ambition and resilience and humor.
他们还会讨论自己对未来的期许，那种姿态是我们眼中的年轻美国人都会有的——充满了野心、韧性和幽默感。

I discovered perhaps the happiest people of all, professors at the University of Texas at El Paso.
我或许发现了最幸福的美国人——厄尔巴索德克萨斯大学的教授。

They led lives of relative wealth and contentment, along with a feeling that they were a part of something bigger.
他们的生活相对富足，不愁吃穿，他们甚至还有一种自己能干大事的感觉。

Indeed, what can bring more fulfillment than the knowledge that you have changed someone's life, and not just by giving to a charity,
比知识更能让人感到满足的就是你能改变其他人的生活，而不只是做慈善而已。

but by helping to educate someone for whom higher education is not a birthright, but a shining goal?
而是助力教育那些没有财力获得高等教育的人、那些将获得高等教育视为梦想的人。

Community was the surest indication of happiness on my long journey.
在我漫长的旅途中，社群是最能彰显幸福的地方。

Those who worked with people, and not just basis points on a Bloomberg monitor, were optimistic.
跟人一起工作的人通常都很积极乐观，而并非把基点情况视为一切。

They had hope for the people they mentored and hope for our fractious country as a whole.
他们希望自己辅导的人和动辄纷乱的国家能够凝聚在一起。

Along the border with Mexico, at one of the southwest extremities of our country, I found the kind of people I wanted to become.
在美墨边境线上，在美国西南部的蛮荒之地，我发现了自己想要成为的那种人。

The future, I believe, is theirs for the taking.
我相信未来是他们的。

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1.well-being 繁荣发展

He believes better relations with China are fundamental to the well-being of the area
他相信和中国建立更加良好的关系对这一地区的繁荣发展至关重要n8s*INQtpLRH。

2.a means of 手段

It was an object lesson in how to use television as a means of persuasion.
这是如何利用电视进行劝服的一个实际例子0s[#X-hHRfsw。

3.cross-country 越野的

Some of the riders in this section made heavy weather of the cross-country race.
这个环节的部分骑手夸大了这场越野比赛的困难0r5=Jr3_eKG^-。

4.as a whole 整体看

At this point, the teacher could suggest revisions of the paragraph as a whole.
这时候教师可以建议对整个段落进行修改wLtMUVDEyxW|5_oBhx@。

5.a good deal of 很多的

Some preteens are able to handle a good deal of responsibility.
有些青春期前的儿童能够承担很多责任srNvk@=~N)M1。

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contentment	[kən'tentmənt]	想一想再看 n. 满足，使人满足的事
prospects		想一想再看 n. 预期；前景；潜在顾客；远景展望
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indication	[.indi'keiʃən]	想一想再看 n. 表示，指示，象征
unhappy	[ʌn'hæpi]	想一想再看 adj. 不快乐的，不高兴的
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