来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：聆听音乐 第19集 第19集》

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  I was trying to think this morning.
  今天早上我在想
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  I don't know very much about popular culture,
  我不太关注流行文化
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  but who would be like that today?
  但我在想 谁是今天的茶花女呢
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  I don't know.
  我不知道
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  I--Paris Hilton, people like--I don't know,
  也许是像帕丽斯·希尔顿那样的人
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  but she was kind of the tabloid figure
  茶花女就像是十九世纪的
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  of the nineteenth century
  八卦杂志封面人物
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  so much so that I was struck-- I came upon this recently.
  这个念头让我感到震惊
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  Charles Dickens--
  查尔斯.狄更斯...
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  and you don't think of Dickens and Paris hilton
  通常你不会把狄更斯和希尔顿
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  in the same sentence normally
  相提并论
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  but Charles Dickens in faraway England at this time
  但狄更斯当年在遥远的英格兰