>each day and spat out each night.
Commuter--释义(paraphrase)；"人群"--增词(amplification)。
句⑷ Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to
New York in quest of something.
切分(division)；外来人--概略化(generalization)；something--具体化(specification)；
in quest of--词性转换(conversion)。
句⑸ Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last-the city of final destination, the
city that is a goal.
trembling--选词(diction)；视为、追寻--增词(amplification)。
句⑹ It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical
deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements.
整句为视角转换(shift of perspective)；划线部分为选词(diction)。
句⑺ Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity;
but the settlers give it passion.
give, continuity--选词(diction)；时涨时落--增词(amplification)。
句⑻ And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum,
or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of
being observed by her 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; each
embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York
with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the
Consolidated Edison Company.
视角转换(shift of perspective)；目光，满怀--增词(amplification)；in his suitcase-
减词(omission)；the Corn Belt、the Consolidated Edison Company--直译加注(literal translation + annotation)；fresh, dwarf--选词(diction)。

 

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