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In my necessity to find the terms on which my experience could be related to that of others, Negroes and whites, writers and non-writers, I proved, to my astonishment, to be as American as any Texas G. I.
在我認(rèn)為有必要去尋求一種能把我的生活經(jīng)歷同別的人一黑人和白人，作家和非作家--的生活經(jīng)歷聯(lián)系起來的途徑的過程中，我驚奇地發(fā)現(xiàn)：自己原來也同任何得克薩斯州士兵一樣，是非常愛國(guó)的美國(guó)人。
And I found my experience was shared by every American writer I knew in Paris.
而且我發(fā)現(xiàn)，我在巴黎所認(rèn)識(shí)的每一位美國(guó)作家都有我這種感受。
Like me, they had been divorced from their origins, and it turned out to make very little difference that the origins of white Americans were European and mine were African-they were no more at home in Europe than I was.
他們都同我一樣脫離了自己的本源，而且事實(shí)證明，這些美國(guó)白人的歐洲本源同我的非洲本源競(jìng)沒有多少差別-他們?cè)跉W洲也像我一樣感到不自在。
The fact that I was the son of a slave and they were the sons of free men meant less, by the time we confronted each other on Europe soil, than the fact that we were both searching for our separate identities.
我是奴隸的后代，而他們是自由人的子孫，這種差異則無關(guān)緊要。因?yàn)槲覀冊(cè)跉W洲大地上相遇時(shí)，都在努力探求著各自的自我價(jià)值。
When we had found these, we seemed to be saying, why, then, we would no longer need to cling to the shame and bitterness which had divided us so long.
當(dāng)我們終于發(fā)現(xiàn)各自的自我價(jià)值之后，我們似乎都在感慨：這下可好啦，多少年來造成我們之間的隔閡的遺憾和痛苦之情，我們可再也不用死抱住不放了。
It became terribly clear in Europe, as it never had been here, that we knew more about each other than any European ever could.
我們美國(guó)人彼此間的相互了解超過任何歐洲人所能達(dá)到的程度。這一點(diǎn)在本國(guó)不曾有人認(rèn)識(shí)到，但一到歐洲，我們便認(rèn)識(shí)得很清楚了。
And it also became clear that, no matter where our fathers had been born, or what they had endured, the fact of Europe had formed us both, was part of our identity and part of our inheritance.
還有一點(diǎn)也顯得很清楚：不論我們的祖先源于何處，也不管他們?cè)羞^什么樣的遭遇，我們美國(guó)黑人和白人都是歐洲造就出來的。這一事實(shí)就是我們的身分以及我們的遺傳特征的組成部分。
