新概念英语第四册24-04

gold rush :淘金热

hero :英雄

mythology :神话

although: 让步状语从句

no...more... 构成最高级

romanticized : 此处指作成电影（浪漫化）

indelible effect :不可磨灭的印象

join hands= coexist 并存

solid basis

同位句

conflict 是 arena 的同位语

accustomed to 做后置定语,意思是 used to :习惯于

unhorsed :放弃戎马生涯

overcame :击退

comment: 评论

relatively :相对的

do=find it pleasan

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...and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences, and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier. And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization. Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indian were bewildered by politicians, bankers and Business-men, and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos. Hart's good-bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited, and if he found it necessary to shoot a sheriff or rob a bank along the way, his early audiences found it easy to understand and forgive, especially when it was Hart who, in the end, overcame the attacking Indians. Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found it pleasant to escape to a time when life, though hard, was relatively simple. We still do; living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.