What began as a scourge of neglected places, hitting blue-collar Appalachian towns and Native American reservations particularly hard, became ingrained in the national consciousness.

最初是被忽视地方的祸害，对蓝领阿巴拉契亚城镇和美洲原住民保留地的打击尤为严重，并在民族意识中根深蒂固。

For much of the past two decades, consumer-tech companies have carried the mantle for America's long-held obsession with entrepreneurs, lifting Silicon Valley and the tech industry to ever loftier heights in the national consciousness.

过去二十年的大部分时间里，消费科技公司都继承了美国对创业家由来已久的这种执念，将硅谷和科技产业在国民意识中的地位提升到了一个全新的高度。

Thanks in part to the educational reforms introduced during his grandfather's tenure as Secretary of State for India more than half a century earlier, the Indian middle class was developing a sense of national consciousness and began to call for independence.

半个多世纪前， 他的祖父担任印度国务卿期间推行的教育改革，印度中产阶级正在发展一种民族意识， 并开始呼吁独立。