but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement.

但是，他们并非故意寻求这种刺激，

When anyone opens a current account at a bank,

任何人在银行开一个活期账户，

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。

probably vertical, cliffs, and gentle sediment-covered terraces,

乃至垂直的峭壁和沉积物覆盖的缓和的阶梯地带，

Because the gravity on the Moon's surface is only a sixth of Earth's

由于月球表面的重力仅是地球表面的1/6-

all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun;

他们无不承认，一旦"旅程开始，目的地"常有急剧的变化。