来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第9集 第9集》

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  "That everything I would ever know was One."
  将来或许会发生的事都在此时成为一体
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  The oneness that he is looking for is partly that oneness of
  他寻找的这种统一 部分是来自
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  mystical emptiness that we saw in the last passage.
  我们在最后一段看到的空无神秘主义
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  But here we get the sense of the racial oneness that
  另外民族统一的观念
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  comes out in some of the other parts of the novel:
  也在小说别的地方体现出来
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  the Negroes plying the shovel and singing, another American type.
  黑人边挥动铁锹边唱歌 另一个美国形象
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  But this is a type with which Sal longs to merge.
  但这是萨尔急切想要融合的风格
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  And this is how-- on 179 and 180--this is
  这就是 在一百七十九页和一百八十页 这是
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  how he images a way out of himself.
  这就是他自己想象的方式
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  So this is on 179.
  一百七十九页
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  So, I'm moving from the question of "What does America look like;
  我将把我的问题从 美国是怎样的
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  what's the mythic vocabulary that Sal is using?"
  萨尔运用了哪些神话用语