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Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception.
每個社會其實都是由一些潛在的規律，由一些人們沒有說出來但卻深深感覺到并看作是理所當然的事物所支配的，我們的社會也不例外。
It is up to the American writer to find out what these laws and assumptions are.
要弄清這些規律和事物，就要由美國作家來努力。
In a society much given to smashing taboos without thereby managing to be liberated from them, it will be no easy matter.
在一個非常喜愛沖破禁忌卻又不能由此從中解脫出來的社會，要弄清這些，不會是一件容易的事。
It is no wonder, in the meantime, that the American writer keeps running off to Europe.
難怪在此期間美國作家不斷跑到歐洲去。
He needs sustenance for his journey and the best models he can find. Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy.
沒有的東西，一種生活的神秘而又不可抗拒的極限感，一句話，一種悲劇感。
And we have what they sorely need: a new sense of life’s possibilities.
而我們也有著他們十分需要的東西-一種認為生活大有可為的新認識。
