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46. This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.
因各种强大动机驱动的迁移活动，在茫茫荒原上建立了一个国家。这一本质，也造就了这片未知大陆的性格和命运。
47. The United States is the product of two principal forces – the immigration of European peoples with their various ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits.
两股主力塑造了美国：随着欧洲不同民族移民而来的种种思想、习俗、民族特色，以及一个新生国家改良这些特点的影响力。
48. But the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.
然而，美国特有的地理环境，不同民族团体之间的相互影响，在这块全新大陆上保留旧世界遗俗难度之大，这一切给美国带来了巨大变化。
49. The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th – and – 16th – century explorations of North America.
15、16世纪北美探险相隔一百多年，第一艘载满移民的船只，横跨大西洋，驶往如今的美国。
50. The virgin forest with its richness and variety of trees was a real treasure – house which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia.
拥有丰富树种的原始森林是一个真正的宝库，从缅因州一直延伸到乔治亚州。 |
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