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Pleasantville, NY 纽约欢乐谷 Money changes the smell of everything, and wealthy towns where people who want to flee New York's asphalt canyons go to have gardens and lawns have scents as restricted as the covenants guarding their real estate values. Maple, oak, and pine smell cyclically different as the seasons turn, and Pleasantville's scent is based on these trees and their leaves at all stages—green, yellow, dead brown, and budding. When you close your eyes you get grass and then the smell of "America as it was," whenever that might mean for your nose. If Normal Rockwell's paintings emitted a scent, this is what it would be. 金钱改变一切气味，富裕的城镇中，人们想逃离纽约这座柏油峡谷，这里的花园和草坪十分有限，气味十分有限。枫树、橡树和松树的味道随着四季的交替而不同，欢乐谷的气味和这些树以及所有生命阶段——绿色、黄色、枯萎以及刚刚萌芽的叶子息息相关。当你闭上眼睛，就能感觉到草丛，然后就能体会到“美国就是这个味儿”，如果诺曼·洛克威尔（Norman Rockwell）的画作会能散发出气味，那就一定是这种味道。 |
