大学英语综合教程 第四册 Unit8B

[05:11.35]like the builders of skyscraters in New York andChicago who have raised up bricks and windows by the thousands,and all alike
[05:21.75]From corn you can derive notions of equality,or uniformity,massed democracy.You can,
[05:31.23]if you are given to that form of mental play,recall Joseph's brethren in the lean years,
[05:38.73]and think how famine has been conquered here and super-abundance itself become such a danger
[05:47.38]that the Government has to take measures against it.
[05:51.95]The power,the monotony,the oceanic extent of the cornfields do indeed shrink up and dwarf the past.
[06:02.34]How are you to think of the small bands of Illini,Ottawas,Cahokians,Shawnee,Miamis who camped in the turkey grass
[06:13.37]and the French Jesuits who descended the Mississippi and found them.(4)When you force your mind to summon them
[06:22.54]the Indians appear rather doll-like in the radiance of the present moment.They are covered in the corn,
[06:31.68]swamped in the oil,hidden in the coal of Franklin County,run over by the trains,turned phantom by the stockyards.