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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  and suck it into himself.
  融合到自己身上
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  Now, you want to ask yourself:
  现在 你们一定想问
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  What is the sadness that motivates this appropriation;
  什么样的悲伤触发了他这样的想法
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  why does he want to become the Negro?
  为什么他想成为黑人
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  He says in another moment, "I was Mexican."
  在别的时候 他说 我是墨西哥人
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  He's always trying to be more exotic than himself,
  他一直试图表现得比自己本身
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  than simple Sal Paradise.
  比普通的萨尔·帕拉迪斯更吸引人
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  Well, Baldwin had something to say about this.
  鲍德温对此有话要说
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  James Baldwin characterized this passage as
  詹姆斯·鲍德温形容这段话
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  "absolute nonsense, and offensive nonsense, at that.
  完全是胡说八道 而且是无礼的胡说八道
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  And yet, there is real pain in it, and real loss, however thin.
  但里面隐含真正的痛苦和迷失 无论多稀薄
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  And it is thin, thin because it does not refer to reality,
  说它稀薄是因为它与现实无关