问答题
Translate the underlined parts into Chinese.
Simply looking at twentieth-century America—rightly called The American Century—is instructive.
2 The innocence, energy, and optimism of pre-World War I America illustrate the vigor with which the nation would embrace the promise of technology
and the wealth of a rich land peopled with a polyglot mix of determined newcomers.
3 After World War I came the horrors of The Great Depression, yet Hollywood—our artists—spoke of a belief in the nation"s destiny and its dreams 4 The Grapes of Wrath depicted the grimness of poverty and, but the story, was laced with an unshakable faith in social justice.
Mister Smith Goes to Washington extolled the triumph of decency over the blandishments of cynicism and power. And the ubiquitous It"s a Wondered Life celebrated family, community, human decency, the future, and God.
5 Despite the overwhelming poverty and unemployment of the 1930s, there was a sense of a shared fate and a belief in what was to come.
Even the thirteen years of Prohibition failed to quench our confidence in our ability to legislate virtue and preordain the future.
6 As we reach the end of The American Century, we need to ask whether we are as willing to sacrifice our pleasures for the greater good of country or family
, and whether we can rely on our leaders and institutions to pursue the common weal, resisting the lures of those promising celebrity, power, immediate gains or other temptations.