The clean, strong feeling that sweeps you when you've done it makes

你这样做时的清晰和强烈的感觉
you know that.

会让你明白"
And even though in that little passage he suggests that it's a

即使在那篇小文章里面他也表示
struggle to be truthful, a struggle to be accurate,

要如实表述很困难很难表述地很准确
a struggle not to dress up your feelings with some sort

很难不修饰自己的感觉和想法
of embellishment, he at other times says that,

他在别的情况下说过
well, some of the stories did come from other people,

的确一些故事是来源于别人
some of the stories he included did come from other people's experiences,

一些故事的确是来自于别人的经历
not from his own life, and that this is allowed and

不是来于他自己的生活并且这是允许的
allowable

也是可以允许的
because what he aimed to do was produce a generic life of a

因为他的目的是描述一个南方黑男孩
black boy living in the South.

的普通的生活