花了点时间:竟然最难做的是第二个句子,想了很久。如有错误,请指正。
Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early
eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration -one of the great folk
wanderings of history-swept from Europe to America. 46) This
movement, impelled
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by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a
wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of
an uncharted continent.
受到各种强大的动机所驱使,这场运动在荒野中开创了一个国家;本质使然,它也塑造了这片未知大陆的性格和命运。
47) The United States is the product of two principal forces-the
immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs,
and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which
modified these distinctly European
cultural (命题人删除了这三个词)traits.
有两股主要力量形成了美国:一是欧洲移民带来的各式思想、风俗和民族特征,二是这个新国家本身在融合上述特征之后带来的影响。Of
necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the
Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans,
Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to
transplant their habits and traditions to the new world. 48)
But,
inevitably,(命题人删掉了这个词)
the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the
interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the
sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new
continent caused significant changes.
但是,美国特有的地理条件、不同种族间的相互影响、以及在这片原始的新大陆上维持旧秩序的艰难,带来了巨大的变化。These
changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible. But the result
was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European
society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly
American.
49)The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory
which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a
hundred years after the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century
explorations of North America.十五世纪和十六世纪的探索发现了北美洲,又过了一百多年,第一艘满载移民的航船跨过大西洋驶向这片土地,即现在的美国。
In the meantime, thriving Spanish colonies had been established in
Mexico, the West Indies, and South America. These travelers to
North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft. During
their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on meager rations.
Many of the ships were lost in storms, many passengers died of
disease, and infants rarely survived the journey. Sometimes
tempests blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm
brought interminable delay.
To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought
almost inexpressible relief. Said one chronicler, "The air at twelve leagues' distance smelt as sweet
as a new-blown garden." The colonists' first glimpse of the
new land was a vista of dense woods. 50) The virgin forest with
its profusion
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and variety of trees was a veritable
(命题人把这个词改为real)
treasure-house which extended over 1,300
miles from Maine in the north to Georgia
(命题人把这个部分改为:from
Maine all the way down to Georgia) 原始的森林,有着种类繁多的林木,从缅因州往南一直绵延到乔治亚州,的确是一座宝库。in
the south. Here was abundant fuel and lumber. Here was the raw
material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval
stores.
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