The Three New Yorks(三個紐約)

The Three New Yorks(三個紐約)

      The Three New Yorks

                                                              E. B. White

      There are roughly   three New    Yorks.There is, first,the New York of the   man   or woman    who was born here,who takes the city for granted and accepts its size anO ItS turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter   the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last   the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements.Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidarity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manu in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference; each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.

三個紐約

    世上大致有三個紐約。首先，這是當?shù)厝说募~約。生于此長于此的紐約人對這個城市