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In his classic novel, “The Pioneers”, James Fennimore Cooper has his hero, 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 developments 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 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.”
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：①詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀在他的经典小说《拓荒者》中塑造的主人公是一个城市的开发商，在书中他带着他的表妹参观了由他承建的城市。（这句句子比较长，有很多修饰语，如果按照句子的顺序来翻译的话，那么会很不通顺，于是就稍微改了一下顺序。添加了“在书中”，这样句子就比较流畅和通顺。）②他描述了宽阔敞亮的街道、鳞次栉比的房屋和繁华热闹的大都市。（都采用了四字格的形式来作形容词，看起来比较优美。）③但是，他的表妹环顾四周却感到十分的疑惑。（bewildered是困惑的意思，形容词表示当时表妹的状态。）④她所能看见的只是一片森林而已。她于是就问“你想让我看的那些美景和改进的地方在哪里呢？”⑤他很震惊，因为她居然看不到它们。他回答道，“哪里？它们不到处都是吗？”（原句中虽然where后面是！但是在中文中连用两个疑问句，可以加强感情，使语气更加的强烈。表示了建造者对于自己内心城市的肯定。）⑥尽管那些还没有在这片土地上建立起来，但是他早已把它们建造在心中了。这些东西对他来说很具体，就像已经竣工了一样。（constructed和finished表示建造和完成，这里就用竣工来表示这两个意思。）
⑦库珀揭示了美国人的一种很显著的特征，那就是未来意识——一种能从未来的角度审视现在的能力；能够不被过去所羁绊，能够在情感上更亲近未来事物的自由意识。（用破折号来解释说明未来意识一词，比较清晰明了。）⑧就像阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦曾经说过“对美国人来说，生活每天都在变化，从来不会一成不变。”（always becoming，never being直接翻译就是一直在形成中，从来没有成为和定性，在这里就翻译成了都在变化，不会一成不变。）