One of every two people in New York City in 1852 was born outside the United States.

在1852年 纽约市每两个人中,就有一个不是美国本土出生

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A new sense of the limit of the possible was being born in me."

内心有个新想法,可能性是有限的“

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Crevecoeur made the North the site of the true essence of what he saw as this new American man being born in America, not in the South.

克雷夫科尔把北方描述成了,真正美国人的发源地,而不是南方

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