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There is wonderful variety of places to eat or shop, and though the most successful of such places are likely to touristy hybrid compromises, they too have genuine roots.
有眾多的各有特色的地方可以去吃飯或購買物品。雖然其中最成功的似乎是那些為招引游客而把各種：民族特色混在一起的地方，但是他們也都有真正的根基。
Other American cities have ethnic turfs jealously defended, but not, I think, such an admixture of groups, thrown together in such jarring juxtapositions.
在其他的美國城市，不同的民族各有自己的地盤，并小心翼翼地加以保護，但是我認為那里沒有這種不和諧地把不同的集團擱在一起的大雜燴。
In the same way, avenues of high-rise luxury in New York are never far from poverty and mean streets.
同樣地，在紐約擁有多層高樓的豪華大街與它近鄰的窮街陋巷相映成趣。
The sadness and fortitude of New York must be celebrated, along with its treasures of art and music.
對紐約的憂傷和剛毅要與其藝術和音樂的財富一起加以贊美。
The combination is unstable; it produces friction, or an uneasy forbearance that sometimes becomes a real toleration.
這種結合是不穩定的，它產生摩擦或是一種不穩定的克制。這種克制有時變成一種真正的容忍。
Loving and hating New York becomes a matter of alternating moods, often in the same day.
對紐約的愛與恨成了一個不斷交替變化著的情緒問題。這種情緒的變化常常發生在同一天。
The place constantly exasperates, at times exhilarates.
這個地方經常使人惱怒，有時也讓人振奮。
To me it is the city of unavoidable experience.
對我來說，這是一個取得不可或缺的經驗的城市。
Living there, one has the reassurance of steadily confronting life.
住在這兒，人們可以放心，一定能持續地面向生活。
