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  3. There are roughly three New Yorks.【F1】There is, first, the New York of the man and woman who was born here, who takes the city f

There are roughly three New Yorks.【F1】There is, first, the New York of the man and woman who was born here, who takes the city f

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问题     There are roughly three New Yorks.【F1】There is, first, the New York of the man and woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts the size and disturbance as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of all these three trembling cities, the greatest is the last — the city of final destination, the city that is the goal.【F2】It is the third city that accounts for New York’s high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidarity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference;【F3】each embraces New York with intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.
    The commuter is the queerest bird of all. The suburb he inhabits has no essential vitality of its own and is a mere roost where he comes at the day’s end to go to sleep. Except in rare cases, the man who lives in Mamaroneck or Little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses, and the path to a quick lunch.【F4】He has fished in Manhattan wallet and dug out coins, but has never listened to Manhattan’s breathing, never awakened to its morning, never dropped off to sleep in its night.
    The terrain of New York is such that a resident sometimes travels faster, in the end, than a commuter.【F5】The journey of the composer Irving Berlin from Cherry Street in the lower East Side to an apartment uptown was through an alley and was only three or four miles in length; but it was like going three times around the world.
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答案首先是那些土生土长的男男女女的纽约，他们对这座城市习以为常，认为它有这样的规模和喧嚣，是自然而然、不可避免的。
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