问答题 Although New York often imparts a feeling of great forlornness or forsakenness, it seldom seems dead or unresourceful; and you always feel that either by shifting your location ten blocks or by reducing your fortune by five dollars you can experience rejuvenation. Many people who have no real independence of spirit depend on the city’ s tremendous variety and sources of excitement for spiritual sustenance and maintenance of morale. In the country there are a few chances of sudden rejuvenation—a shift in weather, perhaps, or something arriving in the mail. But in New York the chances are endless. I think that although many persons are here from some excess of spirit (which caused them to break away from their small town) , some, too, are here from a deficiency of spirit, who find in New York a protection, or an easy substitution.无
【正确答案】纽约虽说时常给人一种沉重的失落感或被遗弃感,城市却难得显出死气沉沉或一筹莫展的样子,反倒是你总拥有一种希望:越过10条马路搬次家,或是花去5美元,就能重新焕发青春。许多缺乏独立精神的人依赖城市巨大的多样性和兴奋源,来求得精神上的耐久力并保持振奋。在乡下,青春得以突然重新焕发的偶然机会不是没有——也许是天气的骤变,要不收到一封让你惊喜的邮件。可是在纽约,这样的机会无穷无尽。在我看来,尽管有不少人是由于精神追求过度到这儿来的(这使他们逼着自己离开小城),也有些人是因为精神贫乏到纽约来的,并在此找到了保护或是轻而易举得到了易地取代的报偿。
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