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Not everyone likes the Park, but just about everyone feels he should.
并非每個人都喜歡中央公園，而只是差不多每個人都感到應該喜歡它。
This was at the heart of Henry James's observations when he visited the Park, in 1904.
這是亨利·詹姆斯于1904年游覽中央公園時發表的評論的主要內容。
The Park, in James's eyes, was a failure, but everyone, as he put it, felt the need to "keep patting the Park on the back."
在詹姆斯看來，中央公園是個敗筆，然而，正如他所指出的，每個人又感到需要“不斷地贊美這座公園”。
By then, the Park's founders had died, and the Park, no longer the domain of the privileged, had been taken over by immigrants.
當時，公園的創建者均已辭世，公園也不再是特權人物的領地，已經被外來移民接管了。
In fact, between James's visit and the nineteen-thirties, the Park might have been at its most popular, visited by ten to twenty million a year.
事實上，從詹姆斯的游覽到20世紀30年代期間，可能是公園的鼎盛時期，每年有一兩千萬人來訪。
The Park in fact was being destroyed by overuse, until 1934, when the legendary Robert Moses was appointed the Park's commissioner.
實際上，公園由于被過度使用而遭到破壞，直到1934年，傳奇式人物羅伯特·摩西被任命為公園的主管，這種現象才停止。
Moses was responsible for the third design element in the Park—neither English nor French, neither Romantic nor classical,
摩西負責公園第三種風格的設計工作——既不是英式，也不是法式；既不是浪漫的，也不是古典的,
but efficient, purposeful, and unapologetically American.
而是卓有成效、目的明確、不折不扣的美國式公園。
He put in baseball diamonds, volleyball courts, and swimming pools.
他興建了棒球場、排球場和游泳池。
He even tried to turn the Ramble into a senior citizen's recreation center, but was stopped by the protesting bird-watchers.
他甚至試圖把漫步園變成老年人娛樂中心，但由于遭到喜歡觀察野鳥的人們的抗議而停建了這一工程。
The irony was that by the end of the Moses era the Park was dangerous.
具有諷剌意味的是，到了摩西時代末期，中央公園竟成了個危險的去處。
