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  3. In his classic novel, The Pioneer, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city h

In his classic novel, The Pioneer, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city h

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问题     In his classic novel, The Pioneer, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. "Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?" She asks. He’s astonished she can’t see them. "Where Why everywhere," he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.
   Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness, the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, "Life for the American is always becoming, never being."
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答案 詹姆斯?费尼莫?库珀在其经典小说《拓荒者》中，讲述了主人公，一个土地开发商人，带着表妹参观他正在开发承建的一座城市。他说，这是一个熙熙攘攘的大都市，街道宽阔，房屋林立。而他的表妹却环顾四周，大惑不解。她所看到的只是一片树林，她不禁问道：“你要给我看的美景在哪，被你改造了地方又在哪?”开发商没料到表妹却看不到他所讲的一切，惊讶地回答说：“哪里?到处都是啊!”虽然这一切还未在大地上建成，但是他已经在脑海了建好了，对他来说，这一切都像已经建成竣工了那样真实具体。 在这里库珀揭示了美国人的一个典型特点，那就是着眼未来，也就是说，他们能够从未来的角度看待现在的一切，可以不为过去所羁绊看待现在，在情感上更多地依附于未来的事物。正如阿尔伯特?爱因斯坦曾经说过的那样：“对美国人来说，生活总是在发展变化中，从来不会静止不变。”
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