新概念英语第四册英语 - 英汉对照情景例句第13页

Lesson 21 William SHart and the early 'Western' film

Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood, Hart actually knew something of the old West.

哈特与大部分同时代在好莱坞的演员不同，他确实了解西部早期拓荒生活的一些情况。

Lesson 21 William SHart and the early 'Western' film

He had lived in it as a child when it was already disappearing,

作为一个孩子他曾在西部生活过，当时西部拓荒生活正在消失。

Lesson 21 William SHart and the early 'Western' film

and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences, and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier.

他塑造的英雄人物深深地扎根于他本人的记忆和经历之中，也扎根于有关已经消失的拓荒生活的历史和神话之中。

Lesson 21 William SHart and the early 'Western' film

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。

Lesson 21 William SHart and the early 'Western' film

Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indians were bewildered by politicians, bankers and businessmen, and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos.

习惯与大自然和印第安人作斗争以求生存的拓荒者被政客、银行家和商人搞得晕头转向，最后被圈地、尖律我外来的清规戒律所击败。

Lesson 21 William SHart and the early 'Western' film

Hart's good-bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited,

哈特扮演的被误为坏人的好人总是一个局外人，总是一个被剥夺继承权的人。

Lesson 21 William SHart and the early 'Western' film

and if he found it necessary to shoot a sheriff or rob a bank along the way,

如果他认为在进行过程中有必要枪击一个司法官或抢劫一个银行，

Lesson 21 William SHart and the early 'Western' film

his early audiences found it easy to understand and forgive,

他的早期观众很容易接受，觉得应该原谅他，

Lesson 21 William SHart and the early 'Western' film

especially when it was Hart who, in the end, overcame the attacking Indians.

特别是当哈特最后战胜了前来进攻的印第安人时，观众更能原谅他。

Lesson 21 William SHart and the early 'Western' film

Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found it pleasant to escape to a time when life, though hard, was relatively simple.We still do;

生活在20世纪20年代的观众认为，逃到一个即使艰苦但比较简朴的时代中去是件愉快的事，我们今天仍有这种感觉。

Lesson 21 William SHart and the early 'Western' film

living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.

如今，不宣而战的侵略、战争、虚伪、诈骗、无政府状态以及即将临头的毁灭成了我们日常生活的一部分，我们都希望有一个赖以生存的行为准则。