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.
1. 旧世界是settled possessiveness (versus 之前)还是 unsettling deprivation（versus 之后）？
2. versus 与to是完全等价的么？也就是说，旧世界全都取的是versus 和 to 之前或之后的（要么都是前，要么都是后）？