and an American-made dialysis machine needs the EU's okay before is hits the market in Europe.

而美国制造的透析仪也要得到欧盟的首肯才能进入欧洲市场。

from dust devils and squalls up to continent-size eddies that only satellites can see.

从小尘暴和暴风发展到只有卫星上可以看到的席卷整块大陆的旋涡。

And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.

虽然在美国历史上没有任何时期或地区像西部拓荒时期那样被荒谬地浪漫主义化了，但神话和事实至少在某一个舞台上共存，也就是存在于个人与渐渐闯入的文明这两者的冲突之中。

that the annual drug bill of the Health Services is mounting to astronomical figures

卫生部门的年度药费上升到了天文数字，

(remember how easily the Apollo astronauts bounded along),

还记得阿波罗飞船中的宇航员轻松地跳跃-

I have known very few writers, but those I have known,

我所认识的作家寥寥无几，然而凡是我所认识