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It was even more bitter to find that their old jobs had been taken by the stay-at-homes,
更令他們痛苦的是，他們發現自己原來的工作已被留在家里的人奪占了。
that business was suffering a recession that prevented the opening up of new jobs, and that veterans were considered problem children and less desirable than non-veterans for whatever business opportunities that did exist.
而當時又正值經濟蕭條時期，新的工作無法找到，現有的工作機會本就為數不多，而且人們又寧愿聘用非退伍軍人，而把退伍軍人看作難對付的孩子，不愿聘用。
Their very homes were often uncomfortable to them; they had outgrown town and families and had developed a sudden bewildering world-weariness which neither they nor their relatives could understand.
就連他們自己的家對他們來說也常常是不舒服的;他們再也不能適應家鄉和家庭了，并且萌生出一種突如其來的、迷惘的厭世之感。這種感覺不論是他們自己還是他們的親友都不能理解。戰爭激起了他們的勁頭，打掉了他們的天真幼稚。
Their energies had been whipped up and their naivete destroyed by the war and now, in sleepy Gopher Prairies all over the country,
而現在，在遍布全國的沉睡的、落后的地方，到處都要求他們抑制他們的勁頭，
they were being asked to curb those energies and resume the pose of self-deceiving Victorian innocence that they now felt to be as outmoded as the notion that their fighting had made the world safe for democracy.
并恢復那種自欺欺人的、維多利亞式的天真無邪的態度。但是他們現在覺得這種態度同那種說什么他們的戰斗已使民主在這個世界有了保障的論調一樣，都是陳舊過時的。
And, as if home town conditions were not enough, the returning veteran also had to face the sodden, Napoleonic cynicism of Versailles, the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition, and the smug patriotism of the war profiteers.
再者，似乎家鄉的情況還不夠受的，退伍軍人還得面對凡爾賽和約那種愚蠢的、拿破侖式的犬儒主義、禁酒法令那種虛偽的行善主義，以及那些發了戰爭財的人們的洋洋自得的愛國主義。那些氣鼓鼓的美國青年的不滿遲早要爆發出來。
Something in the tension-ridden youth of America had to give and, after a short period of bitter resentment, it gave in the form of a complete overthrow of genteel standards of behavior.
在經過一段短暫的強烈的怨忿之后，它終于以一種徹底推翻溫文爾雅的行為規范的形式而爆發出來了。
