来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第13集 第13集》

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  He wants to touch his father's head, touch the sign of his father's mortality,
  他想摸父亲的头 那是父亲接近死亡的征兆
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  the fact that his father is growing older.
  是父亲在衰老的事实
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  He sees in his father's body his own face, hands, voice,
  他在父亲身上看到他自己的脸 手 听到他的声音
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  and we can feel that with him.
  我们能与他一起感受这些
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  And then, when he flees from that scene, finally, and soils himself,
  他逃离了那个环境 但最终他还是堕落了
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  he becomes another one of those abject characters.
  成为了那些卑劣的人当中的一员
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  And he goes to hide under a pier, finally bathes in a river at night.
  他躲到桥墩下 晚上他在河里洗澡
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  This kind of detail gives us two things:
  这类细节告诉我们两件事:
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  both the beginnings or another iteration of the reason
  他成为现在这副样子或者说是他成为父亲翻版的原因
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  why he becomes who he becomes, the drunk, the rapist,
  成为酒鬼兼强奸犯的原因
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  but it gives us more than that.
  但似乎不止如此
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  It gives us a sense of his complexity.
  它向我们展示了他内在的复杂性