In many repects living Native Americans remain as mysterious, exotic, and unfathomable to their contemporaries at the end of the twentieth century as they were to the Pilgrim settlers over three hundred fifty years ago.即使是在二十世紀(jì)末,人們依然認為現(xiàn)有的美洲土著人在很多方面是神神秘秘、稀奇古怪和深不可測的,這與三百五十多年以前朝圣定居者的看法如出一轍. Native rights, motives, customs, languages, and aspirations are misunderstood by Euro-Americans out of a culpable ignorance that is both self-serving and self-righteous.出于自私自利以及自以為是等令人作嘔的愚昧無知,歐美人錯誤地解讀了美洲土著人的權(quán)利、動機、風(fēng)俗、語言以及抱負. Part of the problem may well stem from the long-standing tendency of European of Euro-American thinkers to regard Native Americans as fundamentally and Profoundly different, motivated more often by mysticism than by ambition, charged more by unfathomable visions than by intelligence or introspection. 出現(xiàn)這一問題的部分原因有可能是（輩出歐美思想家的）歐洲人由來已久的思維定勢,（這就是）,美洲土著人從骨子里就（與歐洲人）截然不同,激勵他們更多的是神秘主義,而不是雄心,賦予使命更多的是各種深不可測的夢幻,而不是智慧和自省. 備注： 1．第一個括號內(nèi)的內(nèi)容確實拿捏不準(zhǔn),可探討. 2．第二、三個括號內(nèi)的文字系本人根據(jù)上下文自行添加上去的. 3. Native Americans譯作美洲土著人,因為三百五十多年以前美國還沒有誕生,所以譯作美洲.