Fascination with this ideal has made Americans defy the “Old World” categories of settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation, the cupidity of retention versus the cupidity of seizure, a “status quo” defended or attacked.
美国人是在挑战“旧世界”的分类,那么在这里,“旧世界”的分类到底指的是什么呢?
难道of后面的部分全是该分类的内容??
但是按书上的解释, settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation:稳定的财产取代去掠夺的欲望,怎么看都不像一种分类啊...