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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  I've come, I've gone, but wait, ah, yes,"
  我是来了 可我得走 得呆一会 是这么回事
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  and he stared with rocky sorrow into his hands.
  他惴惴不安地盯着自己的手
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  "Can't talk no more.
  我不用再多说什么了
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  You understand that it is, or might be, but listen."
  你们明白这是干吗 也许会明白的 不过听着
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  We all listened.
  我们仍没做声
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  He was listening to sounds in the night.
  他似乎在注意聆听夜晚某处传来的响声
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  "Yes," he whispered with awe.
  是的 他惊异地悄声说道
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  "But you see, no need to talk anymore and further."
  不过你们瞧 没有必要再讲什么 真的
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  Dean's language has gone from this sort of quasi-academic gibberish of
  狄安已经从小说开头准学术性的语言
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  the beginning of the novel, to this completely fragmented,
  变成支离破碎的词语
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  broken version of the "yes"s and "ah"s and "wow"s of those early, ecstatic days.
  如早些时候极度兴奋下的 是 啊 噢
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  So, Sal's language, by the end, has absorbed some of this,
  最后 萨尔的语言也吸收了一些类似的词语